1. What is the best description of a traditional Japanese music?
A. It is gentle and lyrical C. It is sung in non-resonant voice
B. It is slow and melancholy D. It is meditative and highly ritualized
2. What Korean folk songs that evoke the feeling of the tears shed by Koreans and
the remembrance of sad stories specifically partings?
A. Arirang
B. Loy Krathong C. MoLi Hua
D. Sakura
3. Which of the following is NOT a string instrument of Japan?
A. biwa
B. koto
C. pipa
D. shamesin
4. What melody is used in the folk song Arirang?
A. diatonic
B. harmonic
C. melodic
D. pentatonic
5. Which Korean music literally means "music for the noble class?
A. Chong-ak B. Minsogak C. Sog-ak
D. Tang-ak
6. Which Japanese instrument is called the "dragon flute?
A. hichiriki
B. ryuteki
C. shakuhachi D. shimobue
7. What Japanese percussion instrument is the counterpart of Changgo of Korea?
A. odaiko
B. taiko
C.tsuzumi
D. tsuridaiko