The Pleasure of Music
Music as Culture
Experiencing Music
Find the Beat, Feel the Rhythm
Rhythms That Dance
100
A basic rhythmic pattern that provides the foundation for the complex rhythms played by multiple drums
What is clave?
100
Term designating a particular type of music with a distinctive form or sound.
What is genre?
100
Characterized by a heightened sensitivity to the content, form, or emotional impact of an artistic work or event.
What is aesthetic?
100
A repeated musical figure.
What is an ostinato?
100
A rhythmic Latin American dance with the basic pattern of three steps and a shuffle.
What is the cha cha?
200
An intentionally organized succession of musical tones.
What is a melody?
200
The distinct tonal quality of an instrument or voice, which is clearly identifiable by the ear.
What is timbre?
200
The distance between two tones.
What is interval?
200
The aural aspect of music in which a certain number of beats are grouped together.
What is a meter?
200
A dance music created by Mexicans in Texas.
What is conjunto?
300
Time capsule that contains a representative collection of music from Earth.
What is the Voyager?
300
The performance practices, means, traditions, uses, and beliefs about music of a group of people, either from a specific time or place.
What is music culture?
300
A sequence of 8 pitches built on a pattern of 2 wholes steps, 1 half step, 3 whole steps and 1 half step.
What is a major scale?
300
The rhythm pattern of a compositions melody.
What is melodic rhythm?
300
A type of ballroom dance that originated in Cuba.
What is the mambo?
400
Famous German classical music composer.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
400
A form of expression within a musical genre.
What is musical style?
400
Musical group with several violins, 2 trumpets, large bass guitar, and a special 5 and 6 string guitars.
What is a mariachi band?
400
Famous ragtime composer of songs such as "Maple Leaf Rag" and the "Entertainer".
Who is Scott Joplin?
400
The quintessential Christmas ballet in North America.
What is the Nutcracker Ballet?
500
Members of the Marsalis music family.
Who are Ellis, Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason?
500
Founder of Motown Records.
Who is Berry Gordy Jr.
500
World famous male operatic (tenor) singer from Italy that achieved celebrity status.
Who is Luciano Pavarotti?
500
World's greatest classical music composer from Germany; who became progressively deaf in his later years.
Who is Ludwig Van Beethoven?
500
Composer and director of the hit Broadway musical and film West Side Story.
Who is Leonard Bernstein?
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