A popular style of music that developed in America during the late 1800s and early 1900s
What is Jazz
100
Professionals who study the music of different cultural groups
Who are ethnomusicologists
100
early 1800s social dance of exaggerated walk, promenade, or high step as danced by plantation slaves in the south.
What is the cakewalk
100
Russian composer who wrote "The Flight of the Bumblebee"
What is Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
100
A popular social dance of the 1980s
What is the Electric Slide
200
A style of "art" music as distinguished from folk, jazz, or popular music
What is Classical Music
200
This warrior dance from Cameroon symbolize tribal unity and pride.
What is Lali
200
The space that music appears to carve out for itself.
What is "felt" time
200
Created the hanging gardens in Mesopotamia for his bride.
What is King Nebuchadnezzor
200
A television dance show that showcases a variety of ballroom dance styles executed by professional and amateur partners.
What is Dancing with the Stars
300
A composition usually written in three length sections or movements featuring the interplay between one or more soloist and an orchestra; soloist w/ orchestra background
What is the Concerto
300
Thomas Edison invented the first recorded listening device in 1877.
What is the phonograph
300
Gradually growing faster
What is Accelerando
300
Mixed culture (especially regarding Central America)
What is Mestizo
300
A latin dance originating in Argentina performed at a moderately slow, walk like tempo, in 4/4 meter
What is the Tango
400
A popular black musician who excelled in both jazz and classical music playing the trumpet.
Who is Wynton Marsalis
400
The quality of sound; tone color
What is timbre
400
Spontaneous musical invention
What is Improvisation
400
The artist who won 5 grammy's this year including best song and best album.
Who is Adele
400
A popular musical style that utilizes a syncopated back beat ("afterbeats") often played on rhythm guitar.
What is Reggae
500
A single melody with chordal accompaniment
What is Homophony
500
An art form that combines an orchestra with speaking, singing, acrobatic martial arts, and pantomime.
What is Peking Opera
500
a fixed number of beats in a series that repeats itself over and over (anywhere from 7 to 104 beats in length!)
What is Rhythm Cycle
500
The five instruments of India we learned about in class.
What is Sitar, Sarangi, Veena, Tambura, and Tabla
500
A Tex-Mex style of dance music heavily influenced by German, Czech, and Polish immigrants and the button accordion.