Music History
This means one melodic line.
What is monophonic?
This instrument is most common for jazz tunes.
What is a saxophone?
What are the letters in the music alphabet?
ABCDEFG
This type of note receives 1 beat of sound.
What is a quarter note ?
One quarter note plus one half note.
What is 3 beats ?
This person composed Star Wars.
What is John Williams?
The tuba belongs to this instrument family.
What is brass?
This is the definition of "tempo".
What is the speed of music?
This type of note receives 4 beats of sound.
What is a whole note ?
One half note plus one whole note.
What is 6 beats ?
What is the first music period in music history?
What is Medieval?
The Harp belongs to this instrument family.
What is String?
This is the musical "fraction" found at the beginning of a song. This term lets us know how many beats are in a measure and what note gets the beat.
What is a time signature ?
This note receives 2 beats of sound.
What is a half note ?
One whole note divided by one half note.
What is 2 beats ?
This is the name of a "Swing Band," in that emerged in the 40s.
What is a "Big Band"
This string instrument looks like a large violin and is played standing.
What is the bass?
This is the number of lines on a musical staff.
What is 5 ?
This note has 4 sounds in one beat.
What is a set of sixteenth notes?
One dotted half note plus one half note.
What is 5 beats ?
This person composed Fugue in G Minor for organ.
What is Johann Sebastian Bach? (J.S. Bach)
What is the woodwind family?
This is the symbol lets us know the key of the song.
What is a key signature?
Two of these notes equal one beat of sound.
What is an eighth note ?
One whole note X 5
What is 20 beats?
This is a list of all the music periods in the order that we learned them.
What is
1. Medieval
2. Renaissance
3. Baroque
4. Classical
This is an instrument that everyone is born with.
What is the voice?
Name two of the music textures that we've been over in class.
Homophonic, Heterophonic, Polyphonic, Monophonic
Three of these equals a dotted half note.
What is a quarter note ?
One half note plus a quarter note, plus a whole note.
What is 7 beats ?