World Music Exam 1 Listening

Front 1

1) Work song to make process of cancelling stamps interesting

2) Tools used to make the music are scissors, ink pad, and hand-cancelling machine

3) A few other workers join to whistle to popular tunes or church music

4) Music came from Ghana

5) The music is a field recording

Back 1

Cancelling Stamps

Front 2

1) This is sung in vocables.

2) Men sing in a falsetto

3) Song does not have a regular meter

4) Song's tempo does not go with drum tempo.

5) This is also called the Omaha Dance and it is a War Ceremony

Back 2

Sioux Grass Dance

Front 3

1) The meter is flexible.

2) There are only two pitches for the entire song.

3) The song is not in vocables, but in translatable text.

4) There are 4 stanzas in this song.

5) The lyrics express affection to the child.

Back 3

Lullaby

Front 4

1) This song has a call-and-response form.

2) This is also known as the Warrior's stomp song.

3) This dance is performed by the Woodland Indians

4) This was performed at the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario

5) Sung in vocables

Back 4

Gadasjot

Front 5

1) The men sing in falsetto

2) The song is all in vocables

3) This is a Navajo dance song

4) The dancers wear masks to impersonate gods

5) The dance takes place on the last night of a 9 night ritual

Back 5

Yeibichai

Front 6

1) This is a Navajo Circle Dance from Enemyway

2) Every phrase ends in the same tone

3) There are translatable words in this song

4) Sung in nasal voice

5) Dance also used for courtship and a social dance

Back 6

Shizhane'e

Front 7

1) Sung in vocables

2) Music is quiet with a simple melody.

3) There is no harmony

4) Rattle and drum accompaniment

5) Peyote Rattle played throughout the song

Back 7

Hymn of the Native American Church

Front 8

water drum

Back 8

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