Dynamics
Genres Today
Movie Music
Music Careers
Vocabulary
100
The Italian word for "soft"
What is "piano?"
100
This type of music focuses heavily on rhyme and there is not usually much singing.
What is rap?
100
This is what the first "moving pictures" were called
What are movies?
100
This is someone who gets paid to play music for people
What is a performer?
100
The term for the tone color of a certain sound
What is timbre?
200
The Italian word for "loud"
What is "forte?"
200
This type of music is usually loud and has lots of distorted guitar, drums, and bass. There is a heavy focus on live performance.
What is rock?
200
The first movies that featured sound were called this
What are talkies?
200
This is someone who plays music to help make people get better
What is a music therapist?
200
To sing without any instruments
What is a cappella?
300
Italian for "medium"
What is "mezzo?"
300
This type of music uses lots of acoustic instruments. Topics focus on everyday life, patriotism, and sometimes drinking. Singers usually sing with a distinct accent.
What is country?
300
Name one reason music is used in movies
What is (one of the following): to enhance emotion, to entertain, to give a sense of location, to move the plot along?
300
This is someone who writes songs
What is a music composer?
300
The part that is easiest to hear in a song. It is usually the most "singable."
What is a melody?
400
Italian for "medium loud"
What is "mezzo forte?"
400
These songs are usually short and catchy. The focus in this genre is more on recordings and being able to sell them.
What is pop?
400
This is the term for a musical theme that belongs to a certain character
What is a leitmotif?
400
This person waves his or her hands around to help interpret music for the performers and tell them how it should be played
What is a conductor?
400
The different syllables used in choir to help the singer find his or her notes
What is solfege?
500
This ending means "very" in Italian
What is "-issimo?"
500
This type of music uses very few instruments, but instead uses keyboards and computers. Usually there are no lyrics, but if there are, there aren't that many.
What is electronic music?
500
Explain the history of how music was added to the movies.
First, there was no music, so a pianist would play music in the theaters. Then, movie producers would send out music that went with the film for pianists to play. Finally, music was added.
500
The job of this person is to make already recorded music sound better
What is a producer/mixer/engineer?
500
A term for a certain type of music (or book, movie, etc.)
What is genre?
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