Film Music
The Lion King
This descriptive word could be used to describe a piece with a high tempo and a lot of 16th notes
Fast / Quick / Rapid / Exciting / Chaotic / etc
A Waltz uses this type of drum beat
3-beat
This brass instrument is typically found playing a loud melody in a Polka ensemble
Trumpet
This performer was known as The Man in Black due to his iconic concert attire.
Johnny Cash
This film composer was chosen to create the theme for the Olympics and Sunday Night Football on NBC
John Williams
This note is worth one beat and can make a piece bland if it is the only length used
Quarter Note
The sound on a brass instrument is made by a musician doing this.
Buzzing (lips)
Polka utilizes this type of beat to create it's dance, in which the dancer steps on beats 1, 2, and 3.
2-Beat
This Country singer died of stomach cancer in February of 2024
Toby Keith
This device allowed the capture of images rapidly to later be played back as a flip-book style silent film
Kinetograph
Exclusively using notes of this type would likely make a piece fit under the descriptive words "slow" or "stretched"
Whole Notes / Half notes
This large brass instrument has a slide to change pitch rather than buttons/valves
Trombone
German Polka can be identified by the use of this large instrument
Tuba
Often called the Queen of Country Music, this musician spent 3 seasons as a judge on The Voice
Reba McEntire
This term identifies a short musical phrase that is used to represent something in a film
Leitmotif (motif)
Unlike a drum that would be considered a rhythm instrument, the clarinet would be considered this.
Melody Instrument / Harmony Instrument
If a bass drum plays on beat 1 and 3 and a snare plays on 2 and 4, this is an example of what kind of drum beat?
2-beat
Despite European roots, this Polka song has become an icon of many United States events.
The Chicken Dance
Johnny Cash wrote his song 10 Feet High and Rising with inspiration from this real life event.
The flood of his family farm.
Eric Wolfgang Korngold became the first composer to win a film Oscar for his work on this 1938 movie.
The Adventures of Robinhood
This word refers to a visible collection of 4 beats, separated by a bar-line on sheet music
When Polka dancing to a 2-beat, this is the only beat in which the dancer does not step.
Beat 4
Accordion
Unlike a Work Song that uses repetitive verses and references to worksites, a Folk Ballad uses named characters and is meant to do this.
Tell a Story / Share a Theme