Advanced Global Music Knowledge Quiz

A rigorous, text-only quiz designed for seasoned listeners who wish to prove their mastery of world music intricacies.

music theorycultural heritageworld musicglobal rhythmsethnomusicologytraditional instruments
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Quiz Questions

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  1. 1

    Which West African instrument is a hollowed calabash with a single membrane, traditionally used to accompany griot storytelling?

    Question 1
  2. 2

    The Indonesian gamelan scale known as slendro consists of how many equally spaced pitches per octave?

    Question 2
  3. 3

    Which South American tradition features a 12-note chromatic scale called the sistema de tonos and is performed primarily with the quena?

    Question 3
  4. 4

    In the Turkish classical repertoire, the term usul refers to what element of a composition?

    Question 4
  5. 5

    Which Indian classical music system uses the raga Todi and is characterized by a specific set of microtonal intervals?

    Question 5
  6. 6

    The West African string instrument ngoni traditionally has how many strings?

    Question 6

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