UNIVERSITY OF ST.

LA SALLE
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Political and Social Sciences
ARTS APPRECIATION

MIDTERM EXAM

Name: ____________________________________________ Instructor: ____________________________

Course/Year/Section: __________ Score: ________________ Date: ____________

General Instruction: Erasure/Changing of Answer/Alteration is considered wrong.

I. TRUE or FALSE. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is wrong.

_________________ 1. The sculpture prowess of the Philippines occurred during Spanish regime.
_________________ 2. Painting is known to be the oldest art form.
_________________ 3. Sculpture has been central in religious devotion in many cultures, and until recent
centuries large sculptures, too expensive for private individuals to create, were usually an expression of
religion or politics.
_________________ 4. Carving has always been regarded as the most difficult of the sculpture processes.
_________________5. The figures of relief sculpture project from a flat background.
_________________ 6. The material of music is sound.
_________________ 7. The word music comes from the Latin “mousikê”.
_________________ 8. Rapping is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech,
and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backbeat or musical
accompaniment.
_________________ 9. New wave music encompassed a wide variety of styles, which often shared a quirky
insouciance and sense of humor.
_________________10. Ska refers to a state of hypnotism and heightened consciousness.

II. Choose the correct answers in the box provided.

Brass Folk Music Relief Duration Quartet Buddha Orchestra

Statue Tone Kinetic Duet Equestrian Anino Choir
Music Pitch Rhythm Timber Composer Carving Melody

_________________ 1. Distinctive or individual quality of the sound.

_________________ 2. Emotional motions, sometimes called the memory element of music.
_________________ 3. It is a kind of sculpture that involves aspects of physical motion.
_________________ 4. A kind of statue that typically shows a significant person on horseback
_________________ 5. It remains a popular subject for sculptural art and sculptors all over the world celebrate
this subject in their work.
_________________ 6. It involves removing unwanted portions of the raw material to reveal the form that the
artist has visualized.
_________________ 7. It is a representation list sculpture depicting a specific entity, usually a person, event,
animal or object.
_________________ 8. Combination of melodious tones, and sounds of varying pitch to produce harmony.
_________________ 9. The length of time over which vibration is maintained.
_________________10. A method of instrumentation or a medium, used to perform a musical composition, and
consisting of four parts.
_________________11. A traditional music of people, race, generation which is past from one generation to
another generation.
_________________12. They make sounds when they are struck, scraped, or rattled with hands or special
sticks.
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_________________13. Instruments that are consist of a cylindrical brass tube of varying length.
_________________14. It is a big gathering of instrumentalists having the string section as its nucleus.
_________________15. A person who creates musical or literary work.

III. Define the following vocal classes.

a. Soprano –
b. Tenor –
c. Alto –
d. Baritone –
e. Bass –

IV. Enumeration

Types of Sculpture Give four Music Genre

1. 11.
2. 12.
3. 13.
4. 14.
5. Kinds of Music
6. 15.
7. 16.
8. 17.
9. 18.
10. 19.
20.

V. ESSAY (5 points)
1. What is the rationale and significance of Tolentino’s U.P. Oblation statue?

2. How is music as a whole, given importance in the Philippines?

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