Types of Music
Terms
Instruments
History
Misc
100

This is an African hip hop genre of music

What is Kwaito music?

100

This term is used for music from Europe

What is Western music?

100

This type of instrument that sounds like a low buzzing that you swing around your head

What is the bullroarer?

100

What is the name of the stone that helped archaeologists translate Egyptian writing?

What is the Rosetta Stone?

100

What is ethnomusicology?

What is the study of non-Western music?

200

What is the type of music that relates to dream time?

What are songlines?

200

This term is like an Egyptian conductor

What is a chironomist?

200

This instrument is also called the ram's horn

What is the shofar?

200

What role did women have in Egyptian history of music?

What are musicians?

200

This term is used to describe the speed of music

What is tempo?

300

What type of human noises were included in Australian music?

What is hissing, ritual growling, grunting, shouting, and wailing?

300

This is the kind of way Egyptians learned things

What is learning by rote?

300

This type of instrument looks like a long stick and sounds deep

What is the didgeridoo?

300

This term is the type of society that Egyptians live in

What is polytheistic?

300

This musical term is used to describe the volume of music

What are dynamics?

400

This kind of music was a blend of jazz and African music?

What is Marabi?

400

This type of popular music originated in Jamacia

What is reggae?

400

This is an instrument that is a percussion shaker used in Arabic music

What is the sistrum?

400

This is the name of the writing that Egyptians used that included pictures as symbols for words

What are hieroglyphics?

400

This term is considered to be the foundation of the piece

What is melody?

500

This kind of Australian music is primarily vocal and mostly percussion

What is aboriginal music?

500

This type of music is often associated with birth, puberty, marriage, succession, and funerals

What is traditional music?

500

This is an instrument with a wooden soundboard and metal keys

What is the Kalimba?

500

What are the four periods of music called in Arabic music?

What is Pre-Islamic, Period of Development, Period of Conservation, and the Modern Period
500

This term is the specific sound an instrument makes or sounds like

What is timbre?

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