Music Section 1
The word for the interval between two notes, where one is twice or half the frequency of the other.
What is an octave?
The English name for Ame no Ki.
What is Rain Tree?
The term for using a part of an older music piece in a newer one.
What is sampling?
The full name of the acronym EDM.
What is Electronic Dance Music?
A slight wavering or oscillating sound added in performance by various means.
What is vibrato?
The note that is 11 half steps above G on a keyboard.
What is F#?
The type of performance Flight of the Bumblebee originates from.
What is an opera?
The word for a handwritten document.
What is a manuscript?
The term for using several recordings and combining them to play simultaneously.
What is multi-tracking? (Note: "over-dubbing" is also an acceptable answer)
A chord whose individual pitches are played in an upward or downward succession rather than simultaneously, in the manner that one would strum a guitar or harp.
What is an arpeggio?
The name for the twelve different musical pitches in ascending order.
What is the chromatic scale?
An explanation that describes the narrative or idea for a music piece.
What is a program?
The subject matter Global Warming was inspired by.
What is the fall of the Berlin wall?
The term for when a lyric's or word's literal meaning in a song is emphasized by one or more instruments. (i.e. on the word "stop" all instruments stop)
What is word-painting?
An instrumental genre that juxtaposes an orchestra against (most often) a soloist, or possibly a small group of soloists.
What is a concerto?
The Sachs/Hornbostel Classification of a snare drum.
What is a Membranophone?
The music selection that is noted to be considered thorough-composed.
What is IV Allegro: Thunderstorm? (Note: Any variation of "Thunderstorm" or "Symphony No. 6 Pastoral, op. 68" is also an acceptable answer.)
The symbol in Sumer is icumen in that shows when the next singer should start singing with respect to the singer before them. (i.e. Singer II sings when Singer I hits this point in the lyrics)
What is a red cross?
The keyboard instrument used in Mercy Me, Mercy Me (The Ecology).
What is a Mellotron?
A section during a solo concerto in which the unaccompanied soloist performs virtuosic (and sometimes improvised) material while the orchestra stops playing.
What is a cadenza?
The composer who said that 'music had become so chromatic that the only possible next step forward was to “free” dissonance from the need to resolve to the tonic.'
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
The name of the poet who invited Amy Beach to help transcribe the songs of birds.
Who is Edward Rowland?
A common nickname for the third phase of a 32-bar form.
What is a bridge?
A relationship between two sections and/or chords whose roots are related by a major third or minor third, and contain one common tone. (i.e. G minor to Eb minor)
What is a Chromatic Mediant?
A symbol indicating that a note (or silence) should be sustained longer than its noted value, briefly halting the underlying pulse of the music.
What is a fermata?