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Arts & Music · Music · ages 12-14

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Which instruments are named in the lesson as part of many Javanese gamelan ensembles?
- Gongs and bronze keys
- Violins and cellos
- Trumpets and trombones
Cumbia is a music and dance tradition from which country?
- Norway
- Colombia
- Japan
Sound does not require every musical tradition to use the same scale.
Circle one: True False
What does a raga guide in Indian classical music?
- A melody's notes and characteristic phrases
- Only the materials used to build the instruments
- Only the dancers' clothes and their stage positions
Which description matches the traditional Colombian cumbia example in the lesson?
- Solo violin playing without percussion
- A brass fanfare without any flute melody
- Drum patterns alongside flute melodies
Which occasion for cumbia is named in the lesson?
- A silent exam where music is not allowed
- A festival or party with music and dancing
- A solo audition restricted to orchestral violin players
Which comparison directly shows that two groups use different scales?
- The ordered note sets they choose as scales differ
- They play the same scale on instruments made of different materials
- They play the same scale at two different volume levels
A pupil says a gamelan ensemble is out of tune because its pitches do not match a piano. Which reply is supported?
- Every piano is badly tuned whenever gamelan sounds different
- Gamelan players never tune their instruments to one another
- The ensemble may use a tuning different from the piano's

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Gongs and bronze keys · Many Javanese gamelan ensembles include gongs and bronze-key instruments.
Colombia · Cumbia comes from Colombia, although its later forms have spread to many places.
True · Different ordered selections of pitches are possible. There is no single scale required for all music.
A melody's notes and characteristic phrases · A raga guides melodic movement through notes and characteristic phrases. It is more than a note list.
Drum patterns alongside flute melodies · The example combines drum patterns and flute melodies. It does not describe every form of cumbia.
A festival or party with music and dancing · The lesson names festivals and parties. People may listen or dance.
The ordered note sets they choose as scales differ · Different ordered note sets chosen as scales show a scale difference. Materials and volume alone do not.
The ensemble may use a tuning different from the piano's · A different tuning system can be intentional. A mismatch with a piano alone does not show a tuning mistake.