Music Vocab
The term for speed in music.
What is Tempo?
The longest note.
What is a whole note?
What is Rock?
What is the percussion family?
The size of an instrument that produces lower sounds.
What is a larger instrument?
The term for volume in music.
What is Dynamic?
The note that is one-half the value of a whole note.
What is a half note?
A style of music that began in the Bronx, and involves turntables, boomboxes, rapping and dancing.
What is Hip-Hop?
A family of instruments where the sound comes from plucking or strumming strings.
What is the string family?
The size of an instrument that produces higher sounds.
What is a smaller instrument?
The term for the high and low sounds in music.
What is Pitch?
The note that is one quarter the value of a whole note.
What is a quarter note?
A style of music that originated in Europe and uses a large number of orchestral instruments.
What is Classical?
A family of instruments that all contain a mouthpiece, a bell and a series of tubes.
What is the brass family?
The term for when a part of an instrument is struck, and produces sound by shaking very quickly.
What is vibration?
The term for when you play a rhythm in a strange place.
What is Syncopation?
The note that is one eighth the value of a whole note.
What is an eighth note?
A style of music that some call "America's classical music", comprised typically of piano, trumpet, double bass and drums.
What is Jazz?
A family of instruments where its unique sound comes from the reed or sharp edge of the mouthpiece.
What is the woodwind family?
The kind of wave produced by instruments.
What is sound waves?
The term for the texture of a sound.
What is Timbre?
The note that is one-sixteenth the value of a whole note.
What is a sixteenth note?
A style of music that originated in Jamaica and contains syncopated rhythms.
What is Reggae?
The name of the instrument that belongs to more than one instrument family.
What is the piano?
The name for a person who works on recording and editing music.
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