Pop
A six stringed instrument is often used in pop music.
What is a guitar?
What is a trumpet?
This type of instruments includes the maracas, guiro and claves.
What is percussion?
A stringed instrument with a characteristic circular body central to American folk.
What is the banjo?
This drum is used to create the rhythm in many Middle Easter songs.
What is the darbuka?
This famous pop singer recently came out with a song called "Abracadabra."
Who is Lady Gaga?
This humid city in Louisiana is considered the birth place of Jazz.
What is New Orleans?
A Brazilian musical style and dance associated with carnival rhythms.
What is Samba?
Shares personal and common narratives, allowing the listeners to connect emotionally.
What are Storytelling Lyrics?
This 78 stringed instrument is placed on the musicians lap and plucked to make music.
What is a qanun?
In her 2005 hit “Hung Up” Madonna sampled “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” by this Swedish group.
Who is ABBA?
In one of his most famous songs, jazz legend Louis Armstrong sings about trees of green, red roses, skies of blue, and other colorful images that make him think to himself, “what a wonderful ____”
What is World?
A Grammy-winning Puerto Rican rapper, singer, and songwriter. Also known as "The King of Latin Trap."
This instrument functions like a violin but uses a hand-cranked wheel instead of a bow to vibrate the strings.
What is the Hurdy-Gurdy?
This ancient end-blown reed flute is a sound often heard in Middle Easter music.
What is the ney?
Harry Truman is the first of several U.S. Presidents named in what "flaming" 1989 number-one hit song by Billy Joel
What is We Didn't Start The Fire?
Gaining a love for music in the Little Burgundy community of Montréal, Oscar Peterson became a jazz legend known primarily for tickling the ivories of this instrument.
What is a piano?
This song made by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee racked up 8 billion views on Youtube because of a popular meme online.
What is Despacito?
This indie rock band formed in London in 2007 by lead vocalist Florence Welch often has dramatic, story telling lyrics.
Who are Florence and The Machine?
This rhythm pattern is most commonly seen in Middle Eastern music.
What is 7/8 time?
The Weeknd, Nicki Minaj, and Doja Cat are all multi-time collaborators with this female pop star and former coach on “The Voice.”
Who is Ariana Grande?
Singer and jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald made her debut performance at one of the very first infamous "Amateur Nights" at this Harlem theater in 1934.
What is The Apollo?
This singers English debut album included versions of the ballad "You Sang To Me" in both English and Spanish versions.
Who is Marc Anthony?
This artists blended electronic beats with acoustic folk instrumentation to create a unique crossover music style.
Who is Avicii?
A large pear-shaped lute with short, fretless neck found throughout much of the Middle East.
What is a oud?