Musical Elements
This musical element refers to how fast or slow music is.
What is tempo?
This genre is known for strong beats and rapping.
What is hip-hop?
This family of instruments contains the viola.
What is the string family?
This musical era intentionally broke traditional rules of tonality and form in search of new sounds.
What is the 20th century?
This musical term describes a short musical idea that is repeated and developed throughout a piece.
What is a motif?
This element describes how loud or soft music is played.
What are dynamics?
This style of music originated in African American communities and emphasizes rhythm and improvisation.
What is jazz?
Flute, clarinet, and saxophone belong to this instrument family.
This musical period placed the greatest emphasis on emotional expression, individualism, and storytelling through music.
What is the Romantic era?
When listening to music, this element helps you identify whether sounds are produced by strings, voices, or electronics.
What is timbre?
This musical element refers to the thickness or number of layers in music.
What is texture?
This genre often features orchestras, operas, or symphonies.
What is classical music?
This instrument family produces sound by vibrating air through buzzing lips.
What is the brass family?
This musical period emphasized balance, clarity, and well-defined melodies as a reaction against the complexity of the era which came before.
What is the Classical era?
This term describes the overall plan or structure of a piece of music.
What is form?
This element describes how high or low a sound is.
What is pitch?
This genre blends singing with acting and dancing on stage?
What is musical theater?
Timpani, snare drum, and xylophone belong to this instrument family.
This musical era is generally considered the foundation of Western art music notation and theory.
What is the Medieval era?
This sound design technique uses everyday noises (like breathing or footsteps) to increase realism and fear.
What are diegetic sounds?
This element is created by long and short sounds in music.
What is rhythm?
This style of music is passed down orally and reflects cultural traditions.
What is folk music?
This instrument uses a keyboard and hammers to strike strings.
What is the piano?
This era is well known for it's use of the Fugue form which uses imitation between voices, allowing a single theme to be developed throughout a piece.
This musical term describes combinations of notes that sound tense or unstable.
What is dissonance?