Mountain Top University
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
MUSIC DEPARTMENT
SESSION: 2016/2017 First Semester examination
COURSE CODE: MUS 101
COURSE TITLE: MUSIC AS ANS ARTS AND SCIENCE CREDIT: 3 Units
DURATIONS: 2 hrs DATE: 27/3/2017
INSTRUCTIONS: Attempt all questions in Part A and Part B as directed
Section A
60 marks
Wavelength of a sound is the distance travelled in one
Length/ meter
Cycle/ seconds
Meter./ seconds
Circle/ seconds
Wavelength is calculated by
c/frequency
Meter
Square meter
Centigrade
Approaching sound are
higher in frequency
lower in frequency
moderate in frequency
slightly absurd in frequency
Receding sound are
higher in frequency
lower in frequency
moderate in frequency
slightly absurd in frequency
If sound A is 95 db and Sound be is 60 db how loud is Sound A more than b?
155db
35db
-35db
O35db
If a 40 db sound is combined with a 30 db sound how loud is the sound
70db
10db
40db
-10db
All of these are properties of sound except
Frequency
Loudness
Timber
Speed
What is sound?
Pressure wave
Movements of wave
What can be heard
Explosion in the range of human hearing
Sound in the air travels
Vertically
horizontally
Circularly
Diagonally
Light travels faster than sound. true or false
True
False
Non of the above
True and false
All these are elements of music except
Rhythm
Dynamics
Time signature
Harmony
What is decibel system used to measure?
A speed of sound
B. tone of Sound
C. rate of sound
D. loudness of sound
What is metronome used to measure?
Meter
Movement
tempo
loudness
16. Tempo is the speed of
A. The Beat
B. The Music
C. the Meter
D. light
17. Timber is the same as
A. sound proof
B. Tone colour
C. weight of sound
D. bright tone
18. Monophonic means
A. music with only one note sounding at a time
B. music that is monotonous and boring
C. Music that is having mono tone
D. music that is not melodic
19. Homophony means
A. Music with many lines
B. music with two or more independent notes sounding at the same time
C. Music with only two notes sound together
D. music with one melodic line
20. What does the term MIDI mean
A. Musical Instrument Digital Interface
b. Musical Instrument Device Internet
C Musical Intelligent Device Interface
D. musical installation Digital Interface
21. Frequency is measured in
A. meter
B. Centimeter
C. Hertz
D. Heart
22. Amplitude is measure in
A. Metric tonnes
B. Hertz
C. Frequency
D. Decibel
23. How will you describe this?
Medium Loudness
Loud sound
Low sound
Average sound
24. Threshold of hearing falls in this decibel
A. 10^0
b. 10^3
C. 10^6
D. 10^9
25. Human hearing lies within the range
A. 20Hz - 20,000Hz.
B. 10hz – 10,000Hz
C. 50hz- 20,000Hz
D. 90Hz- 1000Hz
26. The frequency ratio between two neighboring notes is
A. 31/15
B. 23/4
C. 21/12
D. 5 1/4
27. Calculate the wavelength of kHz Air with 340m/s and 1000 cycle/s
A. 0.34 m/cycle
B. 45 m/cycle
C. 340m/cycle
D. 3.4m/cycle
28. Calculate the wavelength of water having 1500 m/s and 3000 cycle/s
A. 0.5 m/cycle
B. 5.0 m/cycle
C. 500m/cycle
D. .005m/cycle
29 . Which sound has a shorter wavelength: 1 kHz in air or 3 kHz in water?
I khz
3 khz
Both
None of the above
30. When the sound source is moving, the frequency of the sound will be altered. This is called
A. Doppler lodge
B. Receding effect
C. Amplitude effect
D. Doppler shift
31. If sound A has 10 times the sound pressure level (SPL) of sound B, how much louder in dB is A than B?
A. 200 Db louder
B. 2000 dB louder
C. 20 Db louder
D. 2 db louder
32. If sound A is 100 db and sound B is 80 db, how much louder is A than B?
20db
160db
8000db
18db
33. If an 80 db sound is combined with a 40 db sound, how loud is the sound (approximately)?
A. 40db
B. 320db
C. 80db
D. 8.0db
34. One of these can cause sound attenuation
A. Temperature
B. rain
C. cold
D. Pressure
35. Binary is a form of music with
A. ABCA
B. AABBCCAA
C ABA
D. ABACA
36. Amen cadence (IV-1)can also be called
A. Halleluyah cadence
B. Plagal Cadence
C. plagiarized Cadence
D. Authentic 4
37. Perfect Authentic cadence moves from
A. V or V7 – 1
B. 1-V
C. IV- V
D. IV or IV7 -V
38. What does modulation mean in music
A. Shift of harmonic structure
B. Shift in the modality
C. Change in timbre
D. Change in key
39. The principal theme in a fugue is know as
A. Subject
B. Theme 1
C. Counter Theme
D. Stretto
40. In adding an answer to a fugue the following style can be used except
A. Double Fugue
B. Augmentation
C. Diminution
D. Inversion
SECTION B 40 marks
Answer any of the two questions below
A. What is music
Write short notes on 5 elements of music
What is Sound
Write short notes on 5 elements of sound
Mountain Top University
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
MUSIC DEPARTMENT
SESSION: 2016/2017 First Semester examination
COURSE CODE: MUS 141
COURSE TITLE: African Music 1 CREDIT: 3 Units
DURATIONS: 2 hrs DATE: 23/3/2017
INSTRUCTIONS: Attempt all questions in Part A and Part B as directed
Every music found in Africa can be regarded as African music
True
False
All these are functions of music in Africa except
Entertainment
Concert
Education
Information
Traditional music in Africa are commonly found in
Concert halls
Village squares
Night clubs
Church
Vocal music in Africa consists of the following except
Solo singing
Choral singing
Aria Singing
Responsorial singing
When songs in Africa is midway between singing and speaking, it is call all of these except
Heightened speech
Chant
Colored singing
Speech song
Two broad categories of voice qualities may be observed in singing traditional music
Nazalised and open throated
Nazalised and closed throated
Vocalling and choralling
Open throated and deep throated
In categorizing African Instruments, where will you categorise the following
Ngelege
Chordophone
Idiophone
Aerophone
Membranophone
Sakara
Chordophone
Idiophone
Aerophone
Membranophone
Mbira
Chordophone
Idiophone
Aerophone
Membranophone
Goje
Chordophone
Idiophone
Aerophone
Membranophone
Oja
Chordophone
Idiophone
Aerophone
Membranophone
Which of the under-listed musical instrument can perform the role of speech surrogate?
Ogene
Icheche
Udu
Sakara
The term itinerant musician is used to describe the:
Professional musicians
Musician on internship
Musicians that travel around in plying their trades
African instrumentalists
One can achieve varied tone of tension drums by
Using special drum stick
Applying the tension on the membrane- twine around the drums
Putting the drums underneath the armpit
Allowing the membrane to ferment
Pedestal drums in Africa are drums with
Legs
Pestle
Plectrum
Membrane
Afro beat is a form of African music. Identify the category
Traditional
Popular
Night club
Opera
African art musician is used to refer to those category of Africans that are
Applying their training in fine arts to music
Schooled in European music idioms and applying it to African music
Combined arts with music to make art music resourceful
PhD. holders in art and music
Neo-Traditional African music are those categories of music
Practiced in Africa before the continent came under European influence
Practiced in Africa before 17AD
Practiced in Africa after the continent experienced European influence
New popular music found in the continent of Africa
Pentatonic Scale in Africa consists of how many note?
2
3
4.
5
What is hemiola rhythmic pattern
Combination of duple an duple time
Combination of twos and threes
Merging of two different patterns
Derivatives of several time signature
What is polyrhythm?
When each line is polyandry
When voice and instruments has own independent rhythm
When strong beat is crossing the weak rhythm
When irregular rhythm are used in drums
Algaita is a popular musical instrument in
Western part of Ghana
Eastern part of Cameroon
The Northern part of Nigeria
Western states of Ghana
In Nigeria Tension drums are commonly found
The Northern and Southern states
The Northern and Mid Western states
The Eastern and South Western States
The Northern and South Western States
Shantu is an orchestra of cucumber shaped gourds popular in
Kaduna people
Kano People
Sokoto people
Bornu Emirate
Ekpili is a music Ensemble popular amongst
Igbo
Benin
Kanuri
Ekiti
Talking drum is made of
Stretched membrane an wood
Goat skin and wood
Membrane and wood
Animal membrane and hollow wood
One stringed musical instrument in Hausa land is called
Kàkàaki
Molo
Zither
Mbira
One of the major characteristics of African music is
Membrane instruments
Percussion
Singing style
Rhythm
In the continent of Africa, the most representative of African music is
Music of North Africa
Music of Sub Saharan Africa
Music of Egypt and Ghana
Music of South and West Africa
Pentatonic Scale is common in Africa. How many note has a scale of such
5
6
7
8
An-hemitonic pentatonic scale is a pentatonic scale without
The tonic
Semitones
The third
The seventh
Ngelege is an African musical instrument of Igbo Origin. Classify the instrument
Membranophone
Chordophone
Aerophone
Idiophone
Compare with European music African music is richer in
Rhythm
Melody
Harmony
Tone
Islam is said to have great influence on the music of
West Africa
Southern Africa
North Africa
East Africa
Indigenous music of Africa can also be called
Neo African music
Old music of Africa
Ancient African Art music
Traditional Music
Learning of music in Africa is mostly done
Orally
Manually
Physically
Scientifically
Of all musical instruments found in Africa which one os the most common?
Rattle
Gong
Mbira
Idiophones
African xylophones can function as
Melodic Instrument
Harmonic Instrument
Rhythmic Instrument
All of the above
African Flutes can be all of the these except
Vertical
Transverse
Open ended
Close ended
All of these instruments can belong to an ensemble with indefinite pitches
Bells
Clappers
Trumpet
Rattles
Section B 40 Marks
Answer any two of the following questions
Hornbostel classified African musical Instruments into four,
What is the principle he used in doing this?
a. Name the four classes
b. Choose any of the class of instrument, discuss with examples, the melodic and rhythmic function of performed?
Music is life in Africa Discuss
All drums talk in Africa’ – Sam Akpabot.
Do you agree? Discuss
What is African Music?
Discuss vividly with relevant examples
Mountain Top University
Music Department
Course name: Basic Piano
Course code : Music 151
Answer All questions
Jury Examination
Technical Exercises 20 Marks
Major Scales C, D, G, F
Minor scales A,
First piece 25Marks
Description: Elementary Piano equivalent to Grade 2/3 of any graded Examination
Second piece 25 Marks
Description: Elementary Piano equivalent to Grade 2/3 of any graded Examination
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