What is the performing medium (instrumentation) of the selection? What is the texture of the selection? (Explain.) What is the function of the beating on the table?
What will be an ideal response?
• Solo voice and tapping (on table top)
• The texture is monophonic (single unaccompanied melodic line)
• The function of the beating on the table is to beat the start of each measure.
Read the description of a performance of beiguan music by the chapter's author, Jonathan P. J. Stock.
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