The structure and design of a composition, incorporating repetition, contrast, unity, and variety
What is form?
100
A term designating a particular type of music with a distinctive form or sound
What is genre?
100
A musical group with several violins, two trumpets, a large bass guitar, and special 5 & 6 string guitars
What is a mariachi band?
100
a type of spontaneous musical invention
What is improvisation?
100
The motive or "grabber" phrase in a song that often accompanies the words of a song's title
What is the hook?
200
The highness or lowness of sound determined by its frequency of vibration
What is pitch?
200
the way the beats or pulses in a musical selection are organized and subdivided
What is rhythm?
200
the way sounds are woven together
What is musical texture?
200
the aural aspect of music in which a certain number of beats are grouped together
What is meter?
200
The craft of putting together sounds to create a musical work
What is a composition?
300
a steady, recurring pulse
What is the beat?
300
The five musical instrument classifications
What are aerophones, idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, and electrophones?
300
A word refering to hearing related experiences, such as listening
What is aural?
300
the emphasis placed on a beat
What is an accent?
300
A famous composer who added jazz into his famous works such as Porgy and Bess, and many more Broadway musicals.
Who is George Gershwin
400
A question-and-answer pattern in which a group responds to a leader
What is call and response?
400
The distinct tonal quality of an instrument or voice, which is clearly identifiable by the ear
What is timbre?
400
A performer with a brilliant, flawless technique
What is a virtuoso?
400
deliberate shifts of the accent so that it goes against the steady beat, conflicts with it, and tries to upset the steady beat
What is syncopation?
400
A late-twentieth century composer and arranger who was a major force in promoting and preserving the African American gospel/spiritual tradition
Who is Moses Hogan?
500
A musical form where parts enter at different times but have the same melody throughout
What is a canon?
500
among the world's most celebrated composers and an acknowledged genius and child prodigy who wrote large works including The Marriage of Figaro
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
500
A heightened sensitivity to the content, form, or emotional impact of an artistic work or event
What is aesthetic?
500
The most famous ragtime composer who wrote The Entertainer and Maple Leaf Rag
Who is Scott Joplin?
500
Someone who reviews performances and writes about how they sound, about the performers, the conductor, and much more to publish in a newspaper or column.