African Music
This traditional African drum shares its Goblet shape with many other drums around the world.
What is a Djembe?
This turkish drum has sharp edges and is played on the side.
What is a darbuka?
Beat
What is the underlying pulse of the music?
This set of nations have residents who predominantly speak spanish or portugese.
What is latin america?
All music, and all sounds, are made up of these.
What are sound waves?
This person leads everyone in the songs as they perform on drums because there is no set structure.
Who is a master drummer?
This type of tone is often heard in Middle Eastern singers.
What is tense?
Rhythm
This traditional latin american drum is tall and barrel shaped. It's head is usually made of animal skin.
What is a conga?
The 808/303 synthesizer replicates the sound of these two real-life instruments.
What are drum and bass?
This geographical feature blocked west Africans from connecting with people in the north for centuries.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Middle Eastern Music features these notes, which sound out of tune to western listeners.
Melody
What is a series of pitches that makes a tune?
This instrument, a set of two wooden handles, shares its name with a popular latin rhythm.
What are claves?
This type of music has some variation on the following Form: Intro A B A B C B Outro
What is pop or rock?
Tell me one element of African Music.
Music is Functional, not for entertainment
Strong Sense of Pulse
Repetitve/Complex Rhythms
No Set Structure
Improvised Solos
This bowl shaped instrument is played with a plectrum, a flat piece of plastic that plucks strings.
What is the Oud?
Tonality
What is the overall sound of the music as pleasant or unpleasant?
This word is used to describe people who are native to an area.
What is indigenous?
This device creates sounds by layering different sound waves on top of each other.
What is a synthesizer?
This instrument is gourd shaped with a skirt of beads; it makes a loud rattling sound.
What is a Shekere?
A person with this job studies the music of different cultures, especially non-Western jobs.
what is an ethnomusicologist?
Timbre
What is the unique sound quality of an instrument?
This type of story describes how the world was made. In Latin America, it describes the indigenous people as "men of corn".
What is a Creation Myth?
This method of composing involves taking small portions of other people's songs and rearranging them into something original.
What is sampling?