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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

  1. Wavelength of a sound is the distance travelled in one

  1. Length/ meter

  2. Cycle/ seconds

  3. Meter./ seconds

  4. Circle/ seconds

  1. Wavelength is calculated by

  1. c/frequency

  2. Meter

  3. Square meter

  4. Centigrade

  1. Approaching sound are

  1. higher in frequency

  2. lower in frequency

  3. moderate in frequency

  4. slightly absurd in frequency



  1. Receding sound are

  1. higher in frequency

  2. lower in frequency

  3. moderate in frequency

  4. slightly absurd in frequency



  1. If sound A is 95 db and Sound be is 60 db how loud is Sound A more than b?

  1. 155db

  2. 35db

  3. -35db

  4. O35db



  1. If a 40 db sound is combined with a 30 db sound how loud is the sound

  1. 70db

  2. 10db

  3. 40db

  4. -10db



  1. All of these are properties of sound except

  1. Frequency

  2. Loudness

  3. Timber

  4. Speed



  1. What is sound?

  1. Pressure wave

  2. Movements of wave

  3. What can be heard

  4. Explosion in the range of human hearing



  1. Sound in the air travels

  1. Vertically

  2. horizontally

  3. Circularly

  4. Diagonally



  1. Light travels faster than sound. true or false

  1. True

  2. False

  3. Non of the above

  4. True and false



  1. All these are elements of music except

  1. Rhythm

  2. Dynamics

  3. Time signature

  4. Harmony



  1. What is decibel system used to measure?

A speed of sound

B. tone of Sound

C. rate of sound

D. loudness of sound



  1. What is metronome used to measure?

  1. Meter

  2. Movement

  3. tempo

  4. 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?





  1. Medium Loudness

  2. Loud sound

  3. Low sound

  4. 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?


  1. I khz

  2. 3 khz

  3. Both

  4. 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?


  1. 20db

  2. 160db

  3. 8000db

  4. 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




  1. A. What is music

Write short notes on 5 elements of music

  1. 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



  1. Every music found in Africa can be regarded as African music

  1. True

  2. False

  1. All these are functions of music in Africa except

  1. Entertainment

  2. Concert

  3. Education

  4. Information

  1. Traditional music in Africa are commonly found in

  1. Concert halls

  2. Village squares

  3. Night clubs

  4. Church

  1. Vocal music in Africa consists of the following except

  1. Solo singing

  2. Choral singing

  3. Aria Singing

  4. Responsorial singing

  1. When songs in Africa is midway between singing and speaking, it is call all of these except

  1. Heightened speech

  2. Chant

  3. Colored singing

  4. Speech song

  1. Two broad categories of voice qualities may be observed in singing traditional music

  1. Nazalised and open throated

  2. Nazalised and closed throated

  3. Vocalling and choralling

  4. Open throated and deep throated

  1. In categorizing African Instruments, where will you categorise the following

Ngelege

  1. Chordophone

  2. Idiophone

  3. Aerophone

  4. Membranophone

  1. Sakara

  1. Chordophone

  2. Idiophone

  3. Aerophone

  4. Membranophone



  1. Mbira

  1. Chordophone

  2. Idiophone

  3. Aerophone

  4. Membranophone

  1. Goje

  1. Chordophone

  2. Idiophone

  3. Aerophone

  4. Membranophone

  1. Oja

  1. Chordophone

  2. Idiophone

  3. Aerophone

  4. Membranophone

  1. Which of the under-listed musical instrument can perform the role of speech surrogate?

  1. Ogene

  2. Icheche

  3. Udu

  4. Sakara

  1. The term itinerant musician is used to describe the:

  1. Professional musicians

  2. Musician on internship

  3. Musicians that travel around in plying their trades

  4. African instrumentalists

  1. One can achieve varied tone of tension drums by

  1. Using special drum stick

  2. Applying the tension on the membrane- twine around the drums

  3. Putting the drums underneath the armpit

  4. Allowing the membrane to ferment

  1. Pedestal drums in Africa are drums with

  1. Legs

  2. Pestle

  3. Plectrum

  4. Membrane

  1. Afro beat is a form of African music. Identify the category

  1. Traditional

  2. Popular

  3. Night club

  4. Opera

  1. African art musician is used to refer to those category of Africans that are

  1. Applying their training in fine arts to music

  2. Schooled in European music idioms and applying it to African music

  3. Combined arts with music to make art music resourceful

  4. PhD. holders in art and music

  1. Neo-Traditional African music are those categories of music

  1. Practiced in Africa before the continent came under European influence

  2. Practiced in Africa before 17AD

  3. Practiced in Africa after the continent experienced European influence

  4. New popular music found in the continent of Africa

  1. Pentatonic Scale in Africa consists of how many note?

  1. 2

  2. 3

  3. 4.

  4. 5

  1. What is hemiola rhythmic pattern

  1. Combination of duple an duple time

  2. Combination of twos and threes

  3. Merging of two different patterns

  4. Derivatives of several time signature

  1. What is polyrhythm?

  1. When each line is polyandry

  2. When voice and instruments has own independent rhythm

  3. When strong beat is crossing the weak rhythm

  4. When irregular rhythm are used in drums

  1. Algaita is a popular musical instrument in

  1. Western part of Ghana

  2. Eastern part of Cameroon

  3. The Northern part of Nigeria

  4. Western states of Ghana

  1. In Nigeria Tension drums are commonly found

  1. The Northern and Southern states

  2. The Northern and Mid Western states

  3. The Eastern and South Western States

  4. The Northern and South Western States

  1. Shantu is an orchestra of cucumber shaped gourds popular in

  1. Kaduna people

  2. Kano People

  3. Sokoto people

  4. Bornu Emirate

  1. Ekpili is a music Ensemble popular amongst

  1. Igbo

  2. Benin

  3. Kanuri

  4. Ekiti

  1. Talking drum is made of

  1. Stretched membrane an wood

  2. Goat skin and wood

  3. Membrane and wood

  4. Animal membrane and hollow wood

  1. One stringed musical instrument in Hausa land is called

  1. Kàkàaki

  2. Molo

  3. Zither

  4. Mbira

  1. One of the major characteristics of African music is

  1. Membrane instruments

  2. Percussion

  3. Singing style

  4. Rhythm

  1. In the continent of Africa, the most representative of African music is

  1. Music of North Africa

  2. Music of Sub Saharan Africa

  3. Music of Egypt and Ghana

  4. Music of South and West Africa

  1. Pentatonic Scale is common in Africa. How many note has a scale of such

  1. 5

  2. 6

  3. 7

  4. 8

  1. An-hemitonic pentatonic scale is a pentatonic scale without

  1. The tonic

  2. Semitones

  3. The third

  4. The seventh

  1. Ngelege is an African musical instrument of Igbo Origin. Classify the instrument

  1. Membranophone

  2. Chordophone

  3. Aerophone

  4. Idiophone

  1. Compare with European music African music is richer in

  1. Rhythm

  2. Melody

  3. Harmony

  4. Tone

  1. Islam is said to have great influence on the music of

  1. West Africa

  2. Southern Africa

  3. North Africa

  4. East Africa

  1. Indigenous music of Africa can also be called

  1. Neo African music

  2. Old music of Africa

  3. Ancient African Art music

  4. Traditional Music

  1. Learning of music in Africa is mostly done

  1. Orally

  2. Manually

  3. Physically

  4. Scientifically

  1. Of all musical instruments found in Africa which one os the most common?

  1. Rattle

  2. Gong

  3. Mbira

  4. Idiophones

  1. African xylophones can function as

  1. Melodic Instrument

  2. Harmonic Instrument

  3. Rhythmic Instrument

  4. All of the above

  1. African Flutes can be all of the these except

  1. Vertical

  2. Transverse

  3. Open ended

  4. Close ended

  1. All of these instruments can belong to an ensemble with indefinite pitches

  1. Bells

  2. Clappers

  3. Trumpet

  4. Rattles

Section B 40 Marks

Answer any two of the following questions



  1. 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?

  1. Music is life in Africa Discuss

  2. All drums talk in Africa’ – Sam Akpabot.

Do you agree? Discuss

  1. 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

  1. Technical Exercises 20 Marks

  1. Major Scales C, D, G, F

  2. Minor scales A,

  1. First piece 25Marks

Description: Elementary Piano equivalent to Grade 2/3 of any graded Examination

  1. Second piece 25 Marks

Description: Elementary Piano equivalent to Grade 2/3 of any graded Examination



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