Valence
Tempo
Acousticness
Danceability
Echo Nest
100

The emotional/mood positivity of the musical track.

What is Valence?

100

 _____________ is the average speed of a song, and the word ____________ is the Italian word for “time” (most academic music terminology comes from the Italian language).

What is Tempo?

100

Refers to the balance of purely acoustic to purely electronic elements in a musical track.

What is Acousticness?

100

Is the ease of which a song can be danced to.

What is danceability?

100

List the eight categories of echo nest?

What are acousticness, danceability, energy, instrumentalness, liveness, speechiness, tempo, valence?

200

Positive mood attributes could include words like:_______________, ______________, _____________.

What are happy, hopeful, energized, peaceful, loving?

200

Speed in music is measured by _____________.

What is BEATS PER MINUTE (BPM)?

200

A song that has no electronics.

What is high acousticness?

200

A song that is hard to dance to.

What is low danceability?

200

In 2014, Echo Nest was purchased by _________. 

What is Spotify?

300

Negative mood attributes could include words like:____________, _____________, _____________.

What are sad, angry, scared, threatening, hopeless, pained. 

300

There are musical tools like _____________ which can automatically generate a BPM or determine a BPM from a generated beat.

What is a METRONOME?

300

A song that has electronics.

What is low acousticness?

300

True or False, 100 years ago music that had high danceability may not have high danceability currently?

What is true?

300

Throughout modern popular music history, most songs have been released on a larger__________.

What is album?

400

Most songs in _____________  sound happy.

What are major keys?

400

Speeding up (providing a feeling of energizing) - the Italian word for this is ______________?

What is accelerando?

400

100 years ago all music was high _______________.

What is acousticness?

400

A song that is fast, loud, and has rawness.

What is high energy?

400

Echo Nest is designed to collect data from popular songs and generate an ____________ that can be used in music marketing, consumer relations, song identification and recommendations, playlist generation, and more.

What is “audio fingerprint”?

500

Most songs in _____________  sound unhappy.

What are minor keys?

500

Slowing down (providing a feeling of relaxing) - the Italian word for this is _______________.

What is ritardando?

500

An electronic feature that tunes a singers voice.

What is auto tune?

500

Higher energy is not always the ___________ of a song.

What is goal?

500

_______________ and ______________ developed an online music intelligence known as Echo Nest.

Who is Tristan Jehan and Brian Whitman?