Music Terminology
What is a chord?
What is a bone flute?
One of the earliest forms of jazz, this style of music was popular on the streets of New Orleans. Everyone could improvise while playing this style.
What is Dixieland?
This woodwind instrument is commonly used in jazz and pop music. It comes in different sizes: Alto, Tenor, and Baritone are some examples.
What is a Saxophone?
What is a Film Score?
A combination of short and fast notes that creates catchy patterns. These can be played on a non-pitched instrument, such as a snare drum.
What is rhythm?
This ancient genre of singing featured unison singing, simple melodies (formed out of only 4-5 different pitches), and was rooted deeply in religious practices.
What is Gregorian Chant?
This instrument was used to communicate long-distance in wars. Players are expected to keep a steady beat for soldiers to march along with.
What is a snare drum?
This composer is famous for writing some of the most popular movie scores of all time, including Star Wars, E.T., Indiana Jones, and many more.
Who is John Williams?
This word is used to describe a specific sound, and its qualities. Example: raspy, strong, piercing, bright.
What is timbre?
What is the printing press?
A trumpeter that recorded "Kind of Blue", the most successful Jazz record of all time.
Who is Miles Davis?
This medieval instrument is the predecessor of the modern day Trombone.
What is a sacbut?
The process of creating sound effects out of everyday objects in a recording booth.
What is Foley?
This word describes the notes chosen in a song that makes it feel a certain way.
Example: Major or Minor
What is Tonality?
This era featured fancy laced dresses, curly white wigs, and music written for a full orchestra.
What is the Baroque?
This saxophonist was the first popular musician who created "free jazz".
Who is Ornette Coleman?
This instrument can be heard "walking" in the background of a jazz tune.
What is the string bass (upright bass)?
This classic movie features an iconic musical line, comprised of two notes that switch back and forth. The notes get faster and faster to signify a sense of danger.
What is Jaws?
Name the typical form of a modern day song.
Intro - Verse - Chorus - Verse - Chorus - Bridge - Chorus - Outro
The name of this era is French for "rebirth", and it happened after a time of great sadness in European society.
What is the Renaissance?
These two major events affected Americans during the Swing era.
What are The Great Depression and World War II?
This blaring brass instrument represented "The Wolf" in Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf".
What is a French Horn?
This scoring technique is used when music is not the most important element of a scene.
What is underscoring?