Elements of Music
A steady pulse in music; you can tap your foot along to it.
What is beat?
What is by rote?
This is where Tin Pan Alley was located.
Where is Manhattan, New York?
This composer is known as the King of Ragtime and famously composed songs like, "The Entertainer" and "Maple Leaf Rag."
Who is Scott Joplin?
How high or low a sound is
What is pitch?
How loud or soft a sound is
What are dynamics?
This invention made learning how to read books and music more accessible to the general public during the Renaissance.
What is the printing press?
This song by Charles K. Harris was known as the first true "hit" on Tin Pan Alley.
What is "After the Ball?"
A pattern of long and short sounds and silences (this is another element of music)!
What is rhythm?
How a song is organized
What is form/structure?
How fast or slow music moves
What is tempo?
Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's invention from 1857 could record sounds, but it could NOT play them back for the listener.
What is the phonautograph?
This composer is known as the King of Tin Pan Alley and wrote thousands of songs in his lifetime before his death in 1989.
Who is Irving Berlin?
What is piano?
How beats are grouped together
What is meter/time signature?
How many layers heard at one time/how many instruments you hear at once
What is texture?
What is notation?
This is the supposed origin of Tin Pan Alley's name.
What is the sound of many pianos playing at once, sounding like children hitting tin pans together?
Some of ragtime's musical influences included these:
What are gospel tunes, blues, and work songs?
The background accompaniment to a melody, or multiple different notes occurring at the same time
What is harmony?
This is a combination of pitch and rhythm (a.k.a. the main part of a song)
What is melody?
Describe the difference between the phonograph and the gramophone.
What is...
*the phonograph uses wax cylinders to record and play back sound/was invented in 1877/was invented by Thomas Edison
*the gramphone uses discs to record and play back sound/was invented in 1887/was invented by Emile Berliner
Name one important outcome from copyright laws during the Tin Pan Alley era.
What is...
Composers had greater ownership over their own music, music could not be stolen and sold, publishing companies could not plagiarize and sell someone else's music, etc.?
Another word for the ragged, off-beat rhythms used in ragtime music
What is syncopation?
The quality of sound (a.k.a. "tone color")
What is timbre?