Music Terms
This is the definition of staccato.
What is short and detached?
This is the major scale with no sharps or flats.
What is C?
This is a Cuban style started in the 60s characterized by a clave rhythm, fast tempos, and the bass always coming before the downbeat.
What is salsa?
This 1971 Stephen Schwartz musical is based on the Gospel of Matthew.
What is Godspell?
This is the curvy line that suggests that you keep holding a note as opposed to rearticulating.
What is a tie?
This is the major scale you have to memorize with just one flat, B flat.
What is F?
This style started in the late 60s and is characterized by a four on the floor drum beat, synthesizers, syncopated bass lines, and artists such as Gloria Gaynor.
What is disco?
This is the musical Jonathan Larson wrote before "Rent".
What is "Tick Tick Boom"?
This is an alternative way to play tee-tee's where you make them long-short instead of even.
What is swung?
This is the second note of a C major scale.
What is D?
This style is characterized by a repetitive "hypnotic", rhythmically active bass/drums figure, while the singer above it is very free. It's like R&B but the background instruments and vocal style are more aggressive.
What is funk?
This 2015 musical by Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron was the first Broadway show with an all-female writing team to win Best Musical at the Tonys.
What is Fun Home?
Once you get to "D.S. al Coda", you go back to this.
What is the S symbol?
This is the third note of a D major scale.
What is F sharp?
This is the European predecessor to musicals, known for patter song and composers such as Gilbert and Sullivan.
What is operetta?
This musical includes a character named Alyssa Greene.
What is The Prom?
This is the term for the "color" of a sound, like the difference between a trombone vs. clarinet playing the same note.
What is timbre?
This is the second note of an Eb major scale.
What is F?
This is the jazz sub-genre characterized by a bass line that has constant tee-tees (8th notes). The examples I used to demonstrate were "I Can Cook Too" and "Cruisin' for a Bruisin'".
What is boogie woogie?
This Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, written in 1943, is generally considered to be the starting point of the Golden Age.
What is Oklahoma?