Vocab 1
Overall sound of the music as pleasant or unpleasant.
What is tonality?
The instruments that support the melody with chords.
What is harmony?
The TV show which was known for making musical artists famous if they appeared.
What is the Ed Sullivan show?
The job Gershwin had in a music store, where he would play pieces for customers.
What is a plugger?
Glenn Miller was known for his work as a ________ band leader.
What is swing?
How long or short a sound is.
What is rhythm?
The unique quality of an instrument or sound.
What is timbre?
Brian Wilson wrote in the ________, rather than singing and touring with the rest of the band.
What is a studio?
The painting Impressionism is based upon.
What is Impression, Sunrise?
Charlie Parker and Ella Fitzgerald both used this improv-heavy jazz style.
What is Bebop?
How loud or soft the music is.
What are dynamics?
The order and arrangement of the parts of music.
What is form?
Elvis earned respect from serving his country after he was __________.
What was being drafted?
The name John Cage gave to his music pieces.
What are happenings?
Dizzy Gillespie's technique caused the _______ of his face to blow out.
What are cheeks?
A series of pitches that makes a tune.
What is melody?
The layers of sound, how sparse or dense the music is.
What is texture?
The craze shown by many Beatles fans was known as ________________.
What is Beatlemania?
The place John Phillip Sousa almost joined instead of the military.
What is a circus?
The jazz musician who was laughed off stage, and practiced for years to come back as a great.
Who is Charlie Parker?
Changing the types of instruments would change this elements.
What is texture?
What are dynamics?
A record company, which is also the name of a style that came out of Detroit.
What is MoTown?
Name the three parts of Classical Sonata form.
What are exposition, development, recapitulation?
A jazz style created in the 20s using a walking bass line and swing 8th notes.
What is swing?