Listening to many styles of music, developing a music vocabulary, and contrasting and comparing styles are a way to develop this skill.
Perceptive Listening
100
A set of instrumental music songs, where each song is set in the style of a particular dance.
Suite
100
This person is the director of a performing group and coordinates the performance of a group of musicians
Conductor
100
Both gospel music and qawwali use this style of singing in their songs.
Call and response
200
A question and answer pattern where the group responds to a leader; the second is a type of singing that uses imitation, resembling a round
Call and response and canon
200
Style #1 Developed in New Orleans in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Style #2 is associated with Europe, developed in the 1700s, and was inspired by the culture of Ancient Greece
1- Jazz
2 - Classical music
200
These two types of music began in Latin America
Style #1 - Urban dance popular in Argentina, also performed as a style of ballroom dancing
Style #2 - Afro-Brazilian Dance which is fast and jazzy.
Style #1 - Tango
Style #2 - Samba
200
Name three styles of popular music that use the call and response format
Spirituals, gospel, jazz, blues, rock, rap and folk songs.
200
These two types of songs were used by Christian churches. One is the music used in the Catholic church and the other is the Protestant equivalent.
Mass and Cantatas
300
A method of sight-singing by syllables; this is the name of the syllables
solmization and solfege
300
What do the external aspects of music deal with?
Social aspects (origin and use)
300
Both are dances developed in Europe; the beats move in groups of three.
Style #1 - Very structured type of dance from France
Style #2 - Unrestrained dance, not very formal or structured from Vienna, Austria
Style #1 - Minuet
Style #2 - Waltz
300
What are the following intervals?
Do - La
Do - Re
Do - Fa
6th, 2nd and 4th
300
Why did composers who wrote cantatas and chorale preludes use a lot of hymn tunes in their work?
Because they were familiar to the people from church, it gave non-church music greater appeal.
400
Customs, ideas, tastes and beliefs acquired from one's background; the distinct manner or character of musical expression
Culture and musical style
400
What do the internal aspects of music deal with?
Sound (means, expression and order)
400
Native American music and dance has been preserved through the centuries. How have they done this?
Passed orally and aurally between generations
400
Identify the three solfege syllables described here:
Hand is in a fist
First finger is pointing upward at an angle
Hand is curved downward in a "c" shape
Do, ti, la
400
Explain the difference between a jubilee and a spiritual
Jubilees are happy and lively; spirituals are somber and serious.
500
Two notes that are the same being heard at the same time; the same note, but one is pitched lower and the other higher
Unison and octave
500
Why are we able to tell the difference between different genres of music just by listening to them?
We can hear differences in the musical "style"
500
This type of dance music is from Jamaica; does not have specific steps associated with it. The second style's main instrument is the button accordion and was created by Texan-Americans.
Reggae and conjunto
500
The original markings of a song were not called notes, but were called by this name.
Neumes
500
How do some orthodox Muslims feel about music in religious services?
Music is not approved of and cannot be used in services.