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A style of art music, as distinguished from popular music.
Classical
Customs, ideas, tastes, and beliefs acquired from a person's background.
Culture
A compositions usually written in three lengthy sections or movements featuring the interplay between one or more soloists and an orchestra.
Concerto
The ability to discern musical characteristics and describe them.
Perceptive Listening
Name two composers of the Classical period.
Haydn and Mozart
A single melody with chordal accompaniment.
Homophony
Feelings or emotions when listening to music.
Expression
Where was Jazz originated?
New Orleans street parades and funeral processions.
A popular style of music that developed in America during the late 1800's and early 1900's.
Jazz
Name two Jazz musicians.
Joseph Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane
Name instruments associated with the Classical style.
Violin, lute, Oboe, Horn
What are some of the characteristics of jazz?
improvisations, dance like, rhythmic, blues, soul
Name three internal characteristics of music.
Means, expression and order
Because people in the United States come from all different parts of the globe, American music represents many _______________.
Cultures.
What are the rhythmic differences between "La Bamba" and "La Negra?"
They are in different time signatures and have a different beat emphasis.
Name the two characteristics of perceptive listening.
Internal (dealing with sound) and external (dealing with social aspects)
The __________, invented by Thomas Edison, made music more accessible to everyone.
Phonograph
This African event expressed brotherhood, pride, and tribal unity. They were often prohibited by colonial rulers.
Lali
"La Bamba" is a _________ _________, or traditional song from Veracruz, Mexico.
sones jarochos
A musical group with several violins, two trumpets, a bass guitar, and other guitars.
Mariachi
What were composers from the Classical period were inspire by _______________ from ___________.
Architecture, Ancient Greece
In _____________, singers are accompanied by different types of stringed instruments or flutes.
Peking opera
The blending of Spanish, Indian, and African cultures in Mexico is known by the Spanish term _________.
Mestizo
The requinto jarocho, jarana, guitarron, and vihuela are types of _____________ used in Mexican Music.
Guitars or instruments
Musical texture that occurs when performers sing or play the same melody, but each in its own way, according to voice or instrument.
Heterophony