Deck 11: Epilogue

Question 1

Music in the twenty-first century is marked by limited diversity.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Music can help individuals travel virtually to times and places in their past.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Song texts are frequently written and performed to address the challenges of migration by a community or an individual.Discuss Listening Guide selections from several case studies we have examined in the textbook and explain how they exemplify this common practice in ways that are meaningful to different communities affected by migration.

Answer 3

Answers will vary.

Question 4

New musical interactions and collaborations are occurring in the twenty-first century because of contact between soundscapes.

Question 5

Interaction among musicians in different soundscapes is uncommon.

Question 6

The ________ is an instrument that was created during the European Industrial Revolution and is now used in numerous soundscapes,such as tango and zydeco.

Question 7

A Tango for You uses A B A form,a common musical form also called ________ form.

Question 8

The lyrics of A Tango for You demonstrate what feature shared by both Vietnamese love songs and traditional tangos?

A)The use of the third person
B)An emphasis on the future
C)A sense of melancholy
D)Reference to a long journey
E)All of the above

Question 9

Shoshone War Dance songs have lost their impact in the powwow because their musical sound has changed over the years.

Question 10

The accordion is an example of how one instrument can participate in a variety of styles that cross soundscapes.

Question 11

The musical traditions we have examined in most of the case studies in the textbook were affected in some way by the transplantation of people.

Question 12

The Vietnamese karaoke tango A Tango for You is an example of how a musical composition can relate to:

A)dance.
B)memory.
C)identity.
D)migration.
E)All of the above

Question 13

Fewer new affinity communities are being created in the twenty-first century,because many soundscapes share settings.

Question 14

A Tango for You conveys a sense of romanticism and nostalgia by quoting:

A)Astor Piazzolla's Adiós Nonino.
B)a Vietnamese lullaby,or ru.
C)an Argentinian folk song.
D)Franz Liszt's Liebestraum.
E)None of the above

Question 15

The karaoke song A Tango for You incorporates clear references to the tango in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

A)use of melancholy lyrics.
B)use of the accordion.
C)use of tango rhythms.
D)a reference to the tango in the lyrics.
E)a quotation of the melody from La Cumparsita.

Question 16

Which of the following statements about music in the twenty-first century is true?

A)Music in this century has great diversity.
B)Soundscapes have become more static than they were in the past.
C)Soundscapes tend to interact less than they did in the past.
D)Western popular music has become the dominant tradition.
E)Setting no longer plays an important role in music's meaning.

Question 17

Which of the following statements about music in the twenty-first century is NOT true?

A)Soundscapes continue to change and interact.
B)Music is becoming homogeneous.
C)Music is rich in its diversity.
D)Music travels frequently and in new ways.
E)New soundscapes continue to emerge.

Question 18

In A Tango for You,the violin and the accordion sometimes play a ________,which is a second melody that competes with the main melody.

Question 19

A Tango for You incorporates common rhythms of the tango,which are best described as:

A)duple.
B)binary.
C)ternary.
D)syncopated.
E)compound.

Question 20

All the case studies we have examined in the textbook have surveyed soundscapes that emerged from different places across the globe but are also present in the United States today.

Question 21

How does the Vietnamese karaoke song A Tango for You draw on multiple musical traditions you have studied in previous chapters to speak in a meaningful way to Vietnamese people at home and in diaspora?

Question 22

New musical styles are often created when one composer draws on multiple traditions or when musicians from different traditions collaborate.Discuss Listening Guide selections from several case studies we have examined in the textbook and explain how they exemplify this process.