Families of instruments
A musical instrument such as a drum that creates sound through the vibrating of a stretched membrane over a frame or tube.
What is a membranophone?
Vision Quest by Litefoot
What is Native American music?
The double bass belongs here.
What is the strings section?
In this dance you ...rotate your hips, slowly at first until you get the rhythm and then faster . . . If your hips swivel to the left then feet and knees swivel left; if to the right, then hips, knees and feet swivel to the right...
What is the Twist?
When blue notes are slurred when they are played in Blues music.
What is note-bending?
A musical instrument made from a solid material that is struck or shaken or rubbed to produce sound.
What is an idiophone?
Hambone
What is African American folk or slave music?
The oboe belongs here.
What is the woodwinds section?
In this dance... March in place on every beat, Bend both knees slightly as you pick your feet up , shift your weight to the foot you are stepping down on.
What is merengue?
When a deejay (DJ, or disc jockey) spins records on turntables using his or her hand to stop the record OR play it backwards or forwards so that the sound from the record becomes a rhythm instrument.
What is scratching?
Instruments that you blow into to make sound.
What are aerophones?
September - by Earth, Wind, and Fire
What is soul or funk music?
The French horn belongs here.
What is the brass section?
In this dance... Begin by tapping your right heel forward twice, then tap the same foot back twice, Tap your right foot to the side and bring your right heel across and in front of your body, then repeat but bring your right heel to the back, then grapevine, Take four side steps to the left while spinning your body, move your arm in the air like you are spinning a lasso...
What is the Cotton Eyed Joe?
When German and Czech settlers in Mexico brought their polka with them this style of music was born.
What is Tex-Mex or Tejano-conjunto?
Instruments whose sound is made by vibrating strings.
What are chordophones?
Surfin USA by the Beach Boys
The xylophone belongs here.
What is the percussion section?
This style of dance includes pointing to the sky, starting the lawnmower, the running man, driving a car, and "the sprinkler"
What is disco dancing?
This famous opera singer in 1939 sang America in front of the Lincoln Memorial when she was denied singing on the stage of Constitution Hall because of the color of her skin.
Who was Marian Anderson?
A musical instrument that uses electricity to make sound.
What is an electrophone?
Dancing Queen by Abba
What is 70s disco music?
The kettle drum belongs here.
What is the percussion section?
In this dance ... bend your knees. And you are in a squat with your knees pointed out, shuffle quickly to the right and then quickly back to the left repeat as often as you want, (ugly baggy pants can enhance your moves)
What is the MC Hammer dance?
This hard rock musician was known for his song Purple Haze.
Who was Jimi Hendrix?