Lecture 28: Test Yourself

Matching: Match each term with its definition. Compare your answers with the Answer Key.

a. membranophone in the shape of an hourglass capable of imitating human speech	1. aerophone
b. musical instrument whose sound generator is a stretched string	2. call and response
c. pair of single-headed drums played by one performer, popular in north India texture	3. chordophone
d. melodic idiophone with tongues of metal or bamboo attached to a sounding board	4. heterophonic texture
e. musical instrument whose sound generator is a column of air	5. idiophone
f. musical instrument whose sound generator is a stretched skin or other membrane	6. mbira
g. musical instrument whose own material is the sound generator	7. membranophone
h. texture in which instruments or voices perform the same basic melody but in versions that differ in ornamentation or rhythm	8. pressure drum
i . performance style in which the phrases of a soloist are repeatedly answered by those of a chorus	9. sitar
j. long-necked lute with h seven strings, nine to thirteen sympathetically vibrating strings, and nineteen to twenty-three movable frets, popular in north India	10. tabla

1-e; 2-i; 3-b; 4-h; 5-g; 6-d; 7-f; 8-a; 9-j; 10-c.