History of Hip-hop
Rap writing
Keyboards
Gamelan
Gagaku
100

The party culture of this borough of New York City is widely regarded as the originator of hip-hop. 

What is The Bronx?
100

The number of syllables in the name "Doctor O."

What is three?

100

Each of these keys have two different note names.

What are the black keys?

100

Gamelan is the classical music of this country.

What is Indonesia?
100

Gagaku is the court music of this country's ancient noble class.

What is Japan?

200

This DJ, along with DJ Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa, is seen as one of the three founding DJs of hip-hop. 

Who is Grandmaster Flash?

200

A popular rap form originated by Roxanne Shantae which calls out a person or institution for a negative reason.

What is a dis track?

200

The name of a scale that uses only five notes.

What is a pentatonic scale?

200

This style of gamelan music features radical shifts in dynamic, tempo, and texture.

What is Balinese gamelan?

200

Gagaku originated in the 500s AD, after delegates visited which country?

What is China?

300

This style of hip-hop music began in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the late 1980s, with performers like Ice-T and NWA.

What is gangsta rap?

300

The syllable in the word "Creative" which receives the accent.

What is the second syllable?
300

We learned this Korean folk song using only the black keys of the piano. 

What is "Arirang?"

300
Most gamelan instruments are of this type. 

What are metallophones?

300

This background instrument plays tone clusters: many pitches heard at once.

What is the sho?

400

The building of this highway split the Bronx into north and south, precipitating the poverty and desperation that created gangs and then hip-hop party culture.

What is the Cross-Bronx Expressway?

400
A type of rap in which the MC lifts up and compliments another (usually another MC or the DJ/producer.)

What is a toast?

400

Most grand pianos or electronic pianos with a full range have this many keys.

What is 88?

400

This style of gamelan music is quiet enough to be performed indoors and can be described as relaxing.

What is Sundanese gamelan?

400

Together with the ryuteki, this instrument plays the melody in gagaku music.

What is the hichiriki?
500

Hip-hop is a broad cultural movement which includes these four artforms. 

What is DJing, MCing, breaking, and graffiti?

500

Most raps in the old school era are this length.

What is 16 bars?

500

These pitch letter names represent the spaces of the treble clef staff in ascending order. 

What is F, A, C, & E?

500

In Balinese gamelan, instrument pairs are slightly detuned to create this acoustical effect.

What is interference beating?

500

This word refers to almost any drum in Japanese, but in Gagaku it tends to refer to the very large drums that help keep time. 

What is taiko?

600

This record producer started Sugarhill Records and formed the first commercially successful rap group, the Sugarhill Gang.

Who was Sylvia Robinson?

600

This rapper wrote his poetry with dots on a page representing bars and a grid representing beats. We used his method when we wrote raps in class!

Who is Rakim?

600

These pitch letter names represent the lines of the bass clef staff in ascending order.

What is G, B, D, F, & A?

600

These two words translate to "trunk" and "flowers" and describe the structure of gamelan music. 

What are pokok and kembang?

600
This word describes gagaku music when it accompanies dance or theater.
What is bugaku?
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