Saturday, November 16, 2019

Arnold Richardson was arguably one of the most famous ethnologists who traveled across North America interviewing and recording elderly singers.

Which of the following contains a non-Brazilian musician?
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Chico Buarque

Syncretism is best defined as the...
blending of belief systems

Which of the following is NOT true of the corrido:
Its texts deal solely with the Mexican Revolution

The first opera performed in the New World, La púrpura de la rosa (The Blood of the Rose) (1701), was composed by:
Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco

The most common translation of “Christmas carol” is...
Villancico

The patriarch of Latin American protest singers was:
Héctor Chavero

Which of the following was NOT a 20th century composer who sought refuge in Argentina or Mexico from political conditions in Europe:
Alberto Williams

Which composer used the Mexican son in the third section of his Homage to Federico García Lorca?
Silvestre Revueltas

In traditional Native cultures there is an overarching concept of "music," i.e., they classify songs in terms of "music for flute" or "music for social dancing."
False

Most Native American dance songs have:
A steady pulse

Arnold Richardson was arguably one of the most famous ethnologists who traveled across North America interviewing and recording elderly singers.
False

One reason we know that many types of Indian music have remained unchanged is that beginning in the 1880s:
Ethnologists began fanning out across North America.

In Lakota (Northern Plains) society, a man would play flutes during courtship to convince the woman's parents that he was capable of supporting her.
False

In Navajo ceremonies, male singers perform the parts of the female deities using a falsetto voice.
True

Love songs in the Lakota society are called:
Wioste Olowan songs

Part of the larger Iroquoian musical category called "Earth Songs," Eskanyeh are danced by both men and women.
False

Native American songs often come to life through:
A dream or vision

Navajo and Apache music use A/B, or binary form structure.
True

Pow-wows can be grouped into two broad divisions of:
Competition and traditional events

The established formal structure of pow-wow music has remained unchanged for almost half a century.
True

In 2000, among the states with the largest Native American populations were:
Arizona and California

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