The time period in which the Messiah's 'And the glory of the Lord' was written.
What is the Baroque era?
100
The style of music which refers to a texture where two or more melodic lines are combined.
What is counterpoint?
100
The two styles of music which influence Capercaillie's 'The Skye Waulking Song'.
What is traditional Gaelic folk music and elements of rock music?
100
The style of music used to describe Moby's 'Why does my heart feel so bad?', of the popular music era.
What is dance music?
100
The term to describe music that has no sense of key.
What is atonal?
200
A setting of religious words for solo singers, chorus and orchestra.
What is an oratorio?
200
The instrumentation use throughout Steve Reich's 'Electric Counterpoint'.
What is 12 guitars, 2 bass guitars (pre-recorded backing) and 1 solo live guitar.
200
A waulking song.
What is a work song, sung by women to keep a steady pace while processing cloth.
200
A short sample that is repeated over and over again. Moby uses this in the text "why does my heart feel so bad" and again in the words "these open doors".
What is looping?
200
The style of music Arnold Schoenberg's "Peripetie" belongs to.
What is Expressionism?
300
The first line of text sung by the altos, who enter first.
What is "And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed"?
300
A musical term which describes the effect produced when two or more conflicting rhythms are heard together?
What is cross rhythms?
300
The time signature of 'The Skye Waulking Song'.
What is 6/8?
300
The name of the device which generates sounds electronically.
What is a synthesiser?
300
The term for a set of six pitches which form the basis of Schoenberg's 'Peripetie'.
What is a hexachord?
400
The term to describe how the word 'revealed', which has several notes per syllable, is set to music.
What is melismatic?
400
The musical term to describe using notes which belong to the key rather than chromatic notes which are outside the key.
What is diatonic?
400
An instrument similar to the bagpipes, used in 'The Skye Waulking Song'.
What is the Uilleann Pipes?
400
A digitally recorded fragment of sound. It could be a guitar riff, a line from a song chorus, or the sound of running water.
What is a sample?
400
A small number of ideas, which are first stated and then transformed in different ways.
What is a motif?
500
A melody in one part which is repeated a few notes later in a different part, overlapping the melody in the first part which continues.
What is imitation?
500
The musical term to describe entries which start on different notes of the phrase so the accented notes fall in different places.
What is metrical displacement?
500
The scale which the vocal line of the 'skye waulking song' is based on.