What is the role of musical instruments in traditional Native-American music of North America? Do instrumental ensembles such as Western classical orchestras find any counterparts in traditional Native-American music?
What will be an ideal response?
• A wide variety of drums and rattles are used to accompany traditional Native-American singing.
• Instrumental ensembles such as the familiar orchestras of the Western music-culture are unknown in traditional Native-American music.
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What will be an ideal response?
During the Civil War, as with soldiers today, music provided
a. an important emotional outlet for soldiers in the field and their families back home. b. a source of comfort and inspiration. c. entertainment. d. all of the above.
The title of this song is:
A. “A-Hunting We Will Go” B. “Money Makes the World Go Round” C. “College Hornpipe” D. “Junto Song”
Machaut's Notre Dame Mass was the first version of the Mass Ordinary by a known composer that was of what nature?
A. polyphonic B. monophonic C. secular D. ars nova