Instruments
Culture
Melody and Harmony
Musical Terms
Musical Forms
100
The most important family of instruments in Africa.
What is percussion?
100
This is a key feature of all Latin American music.
What is rhythmic vitality?
100
The hawaiian word for "chant".
What is mele?
100
A repeated rhythmic or melodic idea.
What is ostinato?
100
A musical form with only two differing sections.
What is binary?
200
A Japanese stringed instrument that is plucked.
What is a koto?
200
Using music to transmit cultural values and stories.
What is oral tradition?
200
African music often uses this scale.
What is pentatonic?
200
A style of singing that involves echoing or alternating phrases between a leader and a chorus.
What is call and response?
200
An example of a Latin dance.
What is merengue / beguine / rumba / mambo / cha cha?
300
The instruments in a Mariachi band.
What are guitars, trumpets, violins, marimba and percussion?
300
These three cultures influenced the music in Latin America.
What is American Indian, Spanish and African?
300
Mexican music often employs melodies which are harmonized by this interval.
What is a third?
300
The distance between two notes.
What is an interval?
300
A style of music incorporating African and European elements which was developed in Jamaica.
What is reggae?
400
This is a typical Andean wind instrument using a variety of pipes.
What are panpipes?
400
Music that serves a purpose.
What is functional?
400
This country does not use choral harmony in its traditional music.
What is Japan?
400
Different rhythms played at the same time.
What is polyrhythm?
400
Music from this country does not follow a formal structure.
What is Japan?
500
An African thumb piano.
What is a kalimba / sansa / mbira?
500
This country discouraged use of instruments in church.
What is Russia?
500
The japanese scale that uses the notes, A, B, C, E and F
What is kumoi-joshi?
500
Accenting a beat or part of a beat that is not normally accented.
What is syncopation?
500
A vocal tradition from Russia which is humorous and satirical, often involving "dueling" of singers.
What is chastushki?
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