Unit 1
Pressing play on the master to launch the entire row of clips
What is a scene?
The view that is best for arranging your song from start to finish on a timeline
What is Arrangement?
Electronic instrument, invented in 1920, that is played without being touched?
What is a theremin?
Articulation marking meaning short and detached.
What is staccato?
What intervals do horror movie composers use to make sounds feel “uneasy” or “unsettling”?
What is dissonant?
The view in Ableton that is best for live performance and looping clips
What is Session View?
An effect that boosts or cuts certain frequencies (like highs or lows)
What is frequency?
Music made by recording, editing, and arranging real-world sounds instead of using instruments.
What is Musique Concrète?
Family of instruments that includes the French horn
What is brass?
The unusual meter of the Halloween theme (Listen to the clip)
What is 5/4 time?
Daily Double
The function that aligns notes or beats to the grid so they’re perfectly in time?
What is Quantization?
To save your finished song as an MP3, WAV, or video file
What is export as audio file?
The first widely available commercial synthesizer, released in the 1960s.
What is the Moog synthesizer?
A compositional technique where a melody is repeated by one or more voices or instruments, entering at different times to create a layered sound.
What is canon or round?
The effect a composer might use in Ableton to make a sound feel like it’s echoing down a haunted hallway?
What is reverb?
How hard or soft a note is played (affects volume or tone)
What is Velocity?
Ableton feature lets you assign buttons or knobs on a MIDI controller
What is MIDI Mapping
To create new sounds by combining or electronically generating waveforms.
What is synthesis or synthsize?
Term for Sliding smoothly from one note to another
What is GLISSANDO?
-Daily Double-
This movie includes this song, one of the most famous horror themes ever written. (Listen to the clip)
What is Halloween (1978)?
The process of pre-programming changes to a track's parameters over time, such as volume, panning, or effects, to create movement and dynamic shifts without manual adjustments
What is Automation
Ableton feature that lets you assign buttons or knobs on a MIDI controller
What is an Envelope
This city is known as the birthplace of house music?
Where is Chicago?
The country where Afrobeat is from
(100 pt. Bonus if you can name the artist who created the genre.)
Where is Nigeria (Fela Kuti)?
A repeated musical pattern — used to create tension and drive. (Played on the Gankogui in West African music and is the classical term for Timeline)
What is ostinato?