The Elements
This element describes how loud or soft the music is
What is dynamics
Example #1
Donde Estàs - Ivan Cornejo
This genre of music is rooted in 15th and 16th century French Courts and became more realistic and expressive during the 18th and 19th century. It was then imported and developed in Russian Courts.
Ballet
Who challenged the very concept of music by defining it not by the sounds made but by the act of listening.
John Cage
Instrument #1
This was born in Inwood NYC to Puerto Rican parents. He grew up listening to salsa and American musicals and has worked in the field to create opportunities for more diverse casting.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
The frequency (highness or lowness) of a note -
Example #2
Spring River in the Flower Moon Night
This genre of music involves story telling with dialogue and singing.
Musical Theater
This is the most important thing that determines a person's skills through regularly engagement with music and practicing.
Achievement
Instrument #2
Piano
This late Baroque composer wrote the Messiah where the Hallelujah chorus is from. He also wrote a lot of Harpsichord music
George Frideric Handel
The roadmap or organization of a song
Example #3
On Broken Wings my Listless
This genre is rooted in African American Cultural Traditions such as Boasting, Toasting and Playing the Dozens as well as the Black Arts Movements.
Hip Hop
The ease and speed with which your brain processes certain kinds of information. It is formative until age 9. Afterwards, we need to develop strategies and skills in order to reach higher levels of achievement.
Aptitude
Instrument #3
Violin
This Swing Era artist and composer refused to play for segregated audience and famously sayd, "You can say anything you want on the trombone, but you gotta be careful with words. What we could not say openly, we expressed with music"
Duke Ellington
The frequency of the pulse otherwise known as how fast or slow the music is
Example #4
Harpsichord Concerto in D No. 1 Johan Sebastian Bach
What is program music
Who defines music as "vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion."
Instrument #4
Flute
This composer wrote a lot of program music as well as three famous ballet's, though he was more proud of his symphonies
Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
This term describes an arrangement of pitches into a singable melody; also known as the tune of a song.
What is melody
Example #5
Attack on All Sides
This genre of music is not notated but is passed down through oral tradition. Each player has their own unique interpretation of the piece.
Chinese Solo Repertoire
This group is in charge of licensing individuals using music for therapeutic purposes to improve individuals' functioning, health, or wellbeing.
American Music Therapy Association
Instrument #5
Pipa
This composer created a piece called 4'33 during which a pianist sits in silence at a keyboard and the incidental sounds that occur during that time are considered the "music."
John Cage
This musical element often consists of chords and works to interact with and supports the melody
What is harmony
Example #6
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
This genre of music involves composers pushing the boundaries of sound and music by including extended techniques and atonal music.
20th Century
This piece of legislation codified music as a core part of a well-rounded academic experience that all students should have access too.
Every Student Succeeds Act
Instrument #6
Trumpet
This Italian violinist and composer worked as an instructor at a local orphanage for girls. He also wrote program music based on the four seasons the first of which is in ritornello form.
Antonio Vivaldi
A combination of longer and shorter "notes" or sounds that work to create interesting patterns or grooves
What is rhythm
Example #7
Nutcracker opening Duke Ellington
This genre is a work for instrumental soloists with orchestral accompaniment often used to display the players skills on the solo instrument
Concerto
Music has therapeutic benefits due to the physiological release of what chemicals in the brain responsible for happiness and well-being
Neurotransmitters
Instrument #7
This Polish composer used 20th century extended techniques and unique quality timbre to create a threnody (lament or poem or mourning) for the victims of Hiroshima
Krzysztof Penderecki
This element describes the recognizable quality of a sound unique to an instrument or voice
What is timbre
Example #8
You'll be back by Lin-Manuel Miranda
This genre began in African American communities and New Orleans. Some defining characteristics include improvisation, syncopation and Swing.
Jazz
Where does this definition of music come from?
The science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity
Merriam-Webster
Instrument #8
Harpsichord
This composer, teacher and organist was responsible for the development of equal temprament
Johann Sebastian Bach