Key Terms
What term Designates groups or sets of beat divided by vertical lines on the music staff?
What is Measures
Ragtime was a popular form of dance music in America before ???
What is World War I?
How does the Blue Man Group take a very simple musical idea and make it sound richly complex?
They make music that sounds complex by subdividing beats into beats of equal length.
Describe the rhythmic techniques used in the segment from STOMP Out Loud to create intrest and variety.
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What is melodic ostinato?
A repeated melodic figure
What word refers to a type of spontaneous musical invention?
What is Improvisation?
Who composed the "Maple Leaf Rag?"
Who is Scott Joplin?
Explain the diffrence between beat and rhythm
Beat is a unit of musical time, a steady recurring pulse. Rhythm is the way music paces itself and moves through time
What term refers to the emphasis placed on a sound or pitch in music?
What is Accent?
Who is the football team playing against tonight?
Newcastle, racers
What term is uded to describe the aural aspect of music in which a certain number of beats grouped together?
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov used ??? in "procession of the nobles."
While keeping a steady beat a musician often plays one or more complex rhythms simultaneously.
Since the first beat of a group is accented, hearing the accent helps the listener to establish the ???
What is Meter?
What is the title of the Marching Band show?
Heist
What word means deliberate shifts of the accent so that it goes againts the steady beat, conflicts with it, and tries to upset the steady beat?
What is Syncopation?
The Bamileke people perform highly rhythmic music to accompany their ???
What is warrior dance?
Name the instruments used in the "Lali" performed by the Bamileke people.
Drums, Bells, and Rattles.
What is the Function of meter in music? what is meant by term mixed meters?
The meter established a certain number of beats per measure. A mixed meter means the number of beats per measure changes within one composition.
How many cups of coffee does Mr. Sharp go through a day?
Too many
What is a repeated musical figure called?
What is Osinato?
Ludwig van Bethovan used ??? for the opening section of the second movement of his Symphony No. 7.
What is Simple melodic rhythm
Explain the feeling syncopation gives the music. What causes this feeling?
It creates a feeling of imbalance or something unexpected. The feeling is caused by accents falling on weaker beats or between the main beats
What is melodic rhythm?
The rhythm pattern of a composition’s melody
How many noses does a slug have?
What is between 3 & 5? (4)