Timbre
The unique sound quality of an instrument or voice.
What is Timbre?
The recognizable tune of a piece of music.
What is melody?
The arrangement of long and short notes in music.
What is rhythm?
These two artists tragically died in a plane crash in 1959 along with "The Big Bopper."
Who are Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens?
The number of Beatles members still alive.
What is two: Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr?
Determining what instruments and voices are playing in a particular piece of music.
What is identify?
The shape of the melody.
What is contour?
The steady pulse of a piece of music.
What is beat?
Popular with teenagers in the 1950's, this dance was popularized by Chubby Checker by his song with the same name.
What is "The Twist?"
This left-handed guitar player routinely shocked audiences with his pyrotechnics and destroying guitars.
Who is "Jimi Hendrix"
Putting instruments into categories.
What is classify?
The direction of melody described using steps or leaps.
What is motion?
What is tempo?
The rise in this technology in the 1950's helped propel artists like Chubby Checker and Elvis Presley to stardom, because of their visual style and flashy dance moves.
What is the television?
This legendary rock song by Led Zeppelin is regarded as one of the greatest rock songs ever written.
What is "Stairway to Heaven"
How high or how low an instrument plays relative to other instruments.
What is register?
The fancy parts of a melody. For example: trills, runs, melisma, or vibrato.
What is ornamentation?
A piece of music that has three beats in every measure could be described as this.
What is triple meter?
The name for British cultural influence in the united states that happened in the 1960's primarily through musical artists.
What is the British Invasion?
This is the name for the intense fanaticism surrounding the Beatles in the early 1960's. Might we say the first instance of stans...
What is "Beatlemania"
Telling how the instrument sounds. Using adjectives to explain the sound.
What is describe?
The distance between the highest and the lowest note of the melody.
What is range?
Daily Double: Rhythm is organized into this smaller unit of time. A segment of music specified by a specific number of beats.
What is a measure?
Known for their single "My Generation," this rock band became known for destroying their instruments on stage.
Who is, "The Who"?"
This is the year that the Beatles stopped touring.
What is 1966?