The party culture of this borough of New York City is widely regarded as the originator of hip-hop.
The number of syllables in the name "Doctor O."
What is three?
Each of these keys have two different note names.
What are the black keys?
Gamelan is the classical music of this country.
Gagaku is the court music of this country's ancient noble class.
What is Japan?
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?
A popular rap form originated by Roxanne Shantae which calls out a person or institution for a negative reason.
What is a dis track?
The name of a scale that uses only five notes.
What is a pentatonic scale?
This style of gamelan music features radical shifts in dynamic, tempo, and texture.
What is Balinese gamelan?
Gagaku originated in the 500s AD, after delegates visited which country?
What is China?
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?
The syllable in the word "Creative" which receives the accent.
We learned this Korean folk song using only the black keys of the piano.
What is "Arirang?"
What are metallophones?
This background instrument plays tone clusters: many pitches heard at once.
What is the sho?
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?
What is a toast?
Most grand pianos or electronic pianos with a full range have this many keys.
What is 88?
This style of gamelan music is quiet enough to be performed indoors and can be described as relaxing.
What is Sundanese gamelan?
Together with the ryuteki, this instrument plays the melody in gagaku music.
Hip-hop is a broad cultural movement which includes these four artforms.
What is DJing, MCing, breaking, and graffiti?
Most raps in the old school era are this length.
What is 16 bars?
These pitch letter names represent the spaces of the treble clef staff in ascending order.
What is F, A, C, & E?
In Balinese gamelan, instrument pairs are slightly detuned to create this acoustical effect.
What is interference beating?
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?
This record producer started Sugarhill Records and formed the first commercially successful rap group, the Sugarhill Gang.
Who was Sylvia Robinson?
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?
These pitch letter names represent the lines of the bass clef staff in ascending order.
What is G, B, D, F, & A?
These two words translate to "trunk" and "flowers" and describe the structure of gamelan music.
What are pokok and kembang?