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The oldest known treatise on classical Hindu musical theory, the Natya Sastra, dates from about... |
| | A) | 200 B.C.E. |
| | B) | 2000 B.C.E. |
| | C) | 1200 B.C.E. |
| | D) | 20 B.C.E. |
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About 1500 B.C.E., Indian music first began to be recorded in sacred "knowledge" books called... |
| | A) | Guru |
| | B) | Vedas |
| | C) | Raginis |
| | D) | Talas |
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When a small amount of musical material is repeated many times with gradual changes during the repetitions, the resulting style is called... |
| | A) | minimalism. |
| | B) | aleatoric. |
| | C) | spiritual. |
| | D) | vedic. |
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What is the pinnacle of Indian musical art? |
| | A) | harmonic drones |
| | B) | improvisation |
| | C) | pitch fluctuation including the sliding from one tone to another |
| | D) | jalatarang |
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What extremely important role does a harmonic drone fulfill in Indian music? |
| | A) | It symbolizes the order and majesty of the universe. |
| | B) | It provides pitch fluctuation. |
| | C) | It conveys a particular mood. |
| | D) | It provides a harmonic frame of reference throughout a musical piece. |
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What is considered to be Philip Glass' operatic masterpiece? |
| | A) | Einstein on the Beach |
| | B) | Satyagraha |
| | C) | Akhenaten |
| | D) | Company |
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Each raga, or melodic mode, is associated with one of the following, EXCEPT... |
| | A) | a chord |
| | B) | a certain time of day or night |
| | C) | a definite color |
| | D) | a festival |
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Which of the following is NOT characteristic of a true guru of Indian music? |
| | A) | The guru is responsible not only for his students' musical progress but also for their spiritual development. |
| | B) | A guru no longer performs music. |
| | C) | The guru receives no money for his services. |
| | D) | A guru often guides each student for ten or more years. |
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In the Hindu religion, the majority of Indian songs are... |
| | A) | devotional, expressing love for the deity. |
| | B) | in major or minor mode. |
| | C) | confined to a small and strict range of subjects. |
| | D) | not considered to have spiritual implications. |
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Philip Glass is known for creating music that features... |
| | A) | Arnold Schoenberg's twelve tone composition techniques. |
| | B) | little "cells" of sound that repeat to form hypnotic sound cycles. |
| | C) | passive resistance. |
| | D) | geometric meter. |
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Indian rhythmic cycles are called.... |
| | A) | ragas |
| | B) | talas |
| | C) | raginis |
| | D) | sitar |
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What composition written by Terry Riley has 53 melodic patterns that are played by musicians in conjunction with a piano, which provides the "pulse?" |
| | A) | Shri Camel |
| | B) | In C |
| | C) | Songs for the 10 Voices of the Two Prophets |
| | D) | Ravi Shankar |
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In performing a raga musicians play exactly together at the: |
| | A) | points when the audience claps out intricate rhythms. |
| | B) | tambura. |
| | C) | points when the musicians play in the homophonic style. |
| | D) | saman, which is the first beat of a cycle. |
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