Form
A set of lyrics that repeats in a song
What is a chorus?
A collection of notes played at the same time
What is a chord?
Traditional Songs of a nation or culture that are passed down from generation to generation
What is folk music?
The first line of the chorus of "100 years" by Five for Fighting *play recording*
What is "15 there's still time for you?"
A musical phrase in two parts: One statement followed by another statement that is in direct relation to the first.
What is call and response?
A set of lyrics that has the same melody but different lyrics each time
What is a verse?
A word to describe harmony that is stable and at rest
What is consonance or consonant?
The country from which "The Red Viburnum in the Meadow" originates
What is Ukraine?
The name of the famous piece by Ludwig Van Beethoven that has a repeating 4-note motive
What is Symphony No. 5 (or Beethoven's fifth)?
A unit of time with a specific number of beats
What is a measure?
A form that follows an AAB pattern, originating from African American Spirituals and work songs. This also is the name of a genre of music that influenced the history of American popular music
What is the blues?
What is dissonance or dissonant?
The war from which the song "Meadowlands" originates
What is the Russian Civil War?
The cause for which "Give the Ballot to the Mothers" was written
What is Women's Suffrage?
A short musical phrase that is repeated and developed throughout a piece
What is a motive?
A musical form that we compared to the "hero's journey"
What is ABA?
Music without a primary tonal center, key, or scale
What is atonal music?
The title of African American spiritual based on the story of Moses liberating the Jewish people in Egypt?
What is "Go Down Moses?"
The number of chords in the chord progression for the song "Creep" by Radiohead
What is 4?
The name for music that is written to advocate for a political cause
What is Protest Music?
The rhyming structure of these lyrics:
"Heaven help the child who never had a home
Heaven help the girl who walks the street alone
Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall
Heaven help us all"
What is AABB?
Two types of chords we discussed in class
What are major and minor chords?
The war that Edwin Starr's protest song, "War!", was written about.
What is the Vietnam War?
The war from which the song "Battle Hymn of the Republic" originates?
What is the American Civil War?
A machine that displays visual representations of sound waves.
What is an oscilloscope?