Basic Music Theory
This is the broadest definition of music: “sound ______ in time.”
Organized
The steady, recurring pulse in music is called the ______.
Beat
Blues lyrics typically follow this three-line structure, often labeled A-A-B.
Twelve-bar blues form
The city most associated with the birth of early jazz.
New Orleans
The human voice or an instrument creates sound by producing these vibrations in air.
Sound Waves
The distance between two pitches, such as a major third or perfect fifth, is called a(n) ______.
Interval
When beats are grouped into repeating patterns, it creates this musical element.
Meter
This type of early blues was usually performed by solo singers accompanying themselves on guitar.
Country Blues
New Orleans jazz blended blues elements with this Caribbean-influenced rhythmic style.
Ragtime
Instruments are grouped by how they produce sound; trumpets and trombones belong to this family.
Brass
Dividing the octave into 12 equal parts creates this tuning system.
Equal temperament
When two or more pitches sound simultaneously, the result is known as ______.
Harmony
Classic blues singers were often backed by this type of ensemble.
Small jazz band
Many jazz musicians migrated from New Orleans to this northern city around 1917.
Chicago
In acoustics, this term refers to the loudness of a sound wave.
Amplitude
The “A” above middle C vibrates at this standard frequency in hertz.
440 Hz
A triad built on the first scale degree is called the ______.
Tonic
The “blue notes” commonly alter which three scale degrees?
3rd, 5th, and 7th
Recordings by this New Orleans group in 1917 helped spread jazz nationwide.
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
This instrument family creates sound by vibrating its stretched strings.
String Family
These naturally occurring higher pitches above a fundamental note help shape tone color.
Overtones / Partials
Musical texture using one melody with accompaniment is called ______.
Homophony
This singer is widely considered the “Mother of the Blues.”
Ma Rainey
Early jazz featured group improvisation, especially among these three horn sections.
Trumpet, clarinet, trombone
This scientific term describes the number of sound wave cycles per second.
Frequency