Question
The kulintang consists of a horizontal rack of these instruments. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these instruments. Many varieties of these instruments with bossed knobs at their center play the main melody in kulintang music as well as a related musical genre from which it imported the slendro scale.
ANSWER: gongs [prompt on percussion or metallophones]
[10m] This action nicknames a set of suspended gongs called the gandingan, which provides secondary melodies in kulintang ensembles. West African djembe players are said to make their instruments do this action.
ANSWER: talking [accept talking drum or speaking drum or drum language]
[10e] The slendro scale in kulintang and gamelan music has this many notes, as does the Japanese yo scale. Playing only the black keys on a piano yields a scale with this many notes, which is two fewer notes than the number of [emphasize] distinct pitches in a Western major scale.
ANSWER: five [accept pentatonic scale]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 33% | 22% |
Data
| NYU B | Bard A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Vassar | Haverford | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rutgers B | Penn B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Princeton A | Rowan A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | Cornell C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale B | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Princeton B | Yale C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |