ED2 Exploring World Music: MUSICAL ELEMENTS: RHYTHM

Write your answers on a SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER.

1. Music is a division of……………………….. and ………………………..

2. Give the meaning of the word ‘temporal’……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

3. What is a musical ‘pulse’

4. Give the meaning of musical ‘meter’ (clue: think of Marches or Waltzes)

5. How many beats in the rhythmic cycle known as ‘tintal’?

6. What it an Indian rhythmic cycle called?

7. What musical role does the Tabla player have in North Indian Classical Music?

8. ………………..rhythm is the term given to music without any recurring beat.

9. What natural rhythmic cycle determines the rhythmic structure of Japanese Shakuhachi music?

10. …………………….is just as important as sound (clue: like the blank spaces in a Japanese silk print).

11. What is the function of the principal drummer in the West African musical ensemble?

12. What is the relationship between the human voice and the different drums in African music?

13. Give the groupings of beats in the ‘Clave’ (pronounced ‘clar-vay’) pattern in the video.

14. What is the difference between ‘straight’ and ‘swung’ rhythms?

15. “Music takes over your sense of how time goes by”. What does this mean?