Vocabulary
This melodic fragment is short, separated from the melody of the song, and often syncopated.
This refers to a style of music.
Genre
This style of music is about everyday events and about the region in which one lives.
Folk music
Broad exposure to a wide audience and a banana's covering are synonyms for this hallmark of popular music.
Appeal
I know that tune! This is less prominent in modern music than in previous musical eras.
Melody
This is the rate of speed in a piece of music.
Tempo
This changes in a song, and gives it interest. It is not steady.
Rhythm
This means putting many types of music together, and is a characteristic of pop music.
Synthesis
Musical loops of 8 or 16 counts are know as this kind of beat.
Timekeeping
Popular music sits in the middle of the music spectrum, between these two types of music.
Classical and folk
This is the main theme of a song.
Melody
This is the style of music most teenagers enjoy.
Pop music
Sophisticated, complex orchestral and operatic music are known by this term.
Classical
A "good" beat is made up of interplay between all the different __________ in a piece of music.
Rhythms
This item used to be central the dominant feature of music pieces, but is now less prominent and more this.
Fragmented
The off-beat is also known by this term -- the second half of the beat.
Backbeat
If you and most of your peers are familiar with a song, it is part of this.
Mainstream
Sources of interest in pop music include these two items, in addition to the melody.
Rhythms and sounds
Selling many copies is one way to gauge this in popular music.
Success
Classical music used tools like chromatic scales and unusual chords to make it interesting; popular music uses these tools (name 1 thing).
rhythm, accents, synthesis, beat
The term for the rhythm of the words matching well with the rhythm of the song.
What is prosody?
This happens when accents happen on the off-beat (second half of the beat), to give an unequal but interesting sound.
Syncopation
A lack of pretense and this characteristic are part of pop music's appeal. K.I.S.S.!
Simplicity
These small changes to chords, notes or unpitched sounds to make them stand out are used often in pop music.
Accents
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