Music Terms
What is Tempo
What is Sacred music.
For what instrument was ragtime originally written?
This is "King of Ragtime."
Who is Scott Joplin.
Where was Scott Joplin born?
What is Arkansas.
The Volume of Music.
What is Tempo.
This is the (now famously Irish) ballad that has no known musical composer.
What is Danny Boy.
What is the time period that Ragtime was popular?
This is the song written in 1902 and has a syncopated right hand repeating rhythm. Now we now it as the "ice cream truck song."
What is The Entertainer.
What instrument did Scott Joplin learn to play on his own?
What is piano.
The number of beats per measure.
What is meter.
This music tradition came from Europe and allowed people to learn music individually.
What is written tradition.
What are the precursors to ragtime music?
What are ballads, folk songs, and hymns.
This hand of the ragtime compositions plays the steady military march beat, originating from Europe.
What is the left hand accompaniment.
In addition to operas, ragtime, waltz, and marches, in what other style did Joplin compose?
What is ballet.
The classification of Music.
This music tradition may have changed over time as it passed through generations.
What is oral tradition.
This was the heartland of Ragtime due to its location and travelling population.
What is St. Louis.
This is the main musical pattern of the right hand melody in ragtime. Often notated as "short-long-short" notes.
What is syncopation.
What was Joplin's first successful ragtime song?
What is maple leaf rag.
The "who" or "what" is making music, and the sound quality of that individual or instrument.
What is timbre.
This is the early song books that contained notes "Fa, Sol, La, Mi"
What is shape note hymn books.
This is the structure of a Ragtime song.
What famous movie featured Ragtime music?
What is The Sting.
What is the name of the only opera Joplin composed?
What is Treemonisha.