Western Art Music
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World Music
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100
This movement of a suite features a slower tempo and places emphasis on beat 2.
What is a sarabande?
100
Developed in the late 19th century, this type of religious popular song succeeded from the spiritual.
What is Gospel?
100
This is the musical term for the simultaneous performance of variations on the same melody?
What is Heterophony?
100
The end of the Baroque era is typically marked by this composer's death.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
100
This Australian aerophone, pictured below, is played to produce a continuous drone.
What is a Didgeridoo?
200
This musical era is marked by the following characteristics: Reserved, intellectual, rational-sounding pieces. Controlled compositions. Great growth in string section.
What is the Classical Period?
200
Famous jazz musician John Coltrane play this instrument.
What is a saxophone?
200
Indonesia's most popular music ensemble is called this. It notably features mostly percussion including various mellophones and Kendhangs (hand-drums).
What is Gamelan?
200
Gustav Holst, Aaron Copland, and John Philip Sousa were famous composers for which type of ensemble?
What is wind band/concert band?
200
The sackbut is a predecessor to which modern day instrument?
What is the trombone?
300
Franz Liszt was a popular Hungarian composer and pianist from which musical era?
What is Romantic?
300
This commercial genre originated from a fusion of African American blues and spirituals with Appalachian folk music, gaining traction the 1920s.
What is Country?
300
This Brazilian genre developed from the music of jazz and samba in the late 1950s. It has a specific clave rhythm named after it.
What is Bossa Nova?
300
Sandra Dackow is a prolific 21st century composer/arranger for this type school music ensemble, making age appropriate arrangements accessible to all learners.
What is an Orchestra?
300
The erhu (a two-string, violin-like instrument), the pipa (a four-stringed instrument), and the guzheng (a large 18–23-or-more stringed instrument), are instruments that are traditional to this country.
What is China?
400
This music style literally means "In chapel or choir style" and was originally created to differential between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato style, though its contemporary usage is more pop influenced.
What is a capella?
400
An American style of music characterized by "ragged" or syncopated rhythms. It was popular between the 1890's and the 1910's.
What is Ragtime?
400
Generally music of this cultural group served ceremonial purposes and, notably, featured music that served as games and songs to play during work. Key instruments include rattles, aerophones, and drums.
What is Indigenous American? (Inuit, Seneca, Cree etc.)
400
Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Leoš Janáček were prolific nationalistic composers from which country?
What is the Czech Republic?
400
The mbira is a small percussive instrument native to which continent?
What is Africa?
500
This is an unaccompanied secular vocal song that usually featured 3-6 voices was popular in Italy during the late 16th Century.
What is a madrigal?
500
A complex jazz style developed in the 1940s. Trademarked by its very fast or very slow tempos with improvised lines of eighth notes, irregular accents, and an extended harmony. The patterns often end with an abrupt two-note figure.
What is Bebop?
500
This country's scales are based on 7 notes (Sa, Re (Ri), Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, and Ni) and there are 72 different modes (melas).
What is India?
500
This Austrian born composer is credited for developing the 12-tone technique in 1923.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
500
This is an instrument where the whole of which vibrates to produce a sound when struck, shaken, or scraped, such as a bell, gong, or rattle.
What is an Idiophone?