Follow the accompanying Close Listening guide as you listen to CD 1:9, Hymn, Native American Church. What are the musical features of “peyote style” exemplified in the hymn on CD 1:9?
What will be an ideal response?
• The melody is made up of only two note values, one long, the other short.
• The pitches of the melodic phrases move down in a descending direction.
• There is a rattle/drum accompaniment, but the melody is harmonically unaccompanied and consists of vocables (wordless syllables).
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Why do scholars agree that cave paintings were meaningful to prehistoric peoples?
A. The cave openings were sealed before the artists moved to a new location B. Archaeologists found hunting equipment in the subterranean galleries of each cave C. The archaeological record indicates that people were buried underneath the paintings D. People returned to them many times generation after generation
__________ des Prez is compared to Michelangelo and called the "father of musicians."
What will be an ideal response?
An actor speaking onstage with or without other actors on stage with him is most likely giving
A. an Aria. B. dialogue. C. a monologue. D. nothing.
How would you best describe Coleman's saxophone solo?
a. Cool and relaxed b. Swinging and bluesy c. Frenzied and intense d. Formulaic