Rock and Country
Rock Music grew out of these genres
What are Jazz and Country?
(half points for Blues)
This is a fancy music word that means "Loud"
What is forte?
This is a section of a song where the notes are the same every time, but the words are different.
What is a verse?
This element falls into the Sound category, and talks about how loud or quiet music is.
What are dynamics?
This fancy music word basically means "bad sounds." It's when music sounds kinda gross
What is "dissonance" or "dissonant"?
Country Music grew out of this genre.
What is Blues?
(Half points for Jazz)
This is a fancy music word that means medium-quiet.
What is mezzo-piano?
This is a section of a song where the notes and words are the same every time
What is a chorus?
This is the part of the music that you would sing: it's how the song goes.
What is melody?
This genre developed in the Bronx neighborhoods of New York City during the 1970s
What is Hip-Hop?
This is the fun name for a music genre blending rock'n'roll into country during Generation 3 of Country Music.
What is "Rockabilly"
This is a fancy music word that means "fast"
What is allegro?
This is the word for when something in music repeats, or happens again.
What is repetition?
When the rhythms of a song don't stay evenly on the beats, we call it this.
What is syncopated?
DJ's started doing this during Funk and R&B songs at parties to hype up the crowd, inventing hip-hop.
What is rap?
This is a type of rock music generally used to make political statements and complain about the world.
What is "punk rock"?
This is a fancy music word that means "slow"
This is when something in music is repeated, but with a small change
What is variation?
We use the words "thick" and "thin" to describe this element of music.
This type of Jazz was only a few players at a time.
What is Combo Jazz?
We split Country Music's history into this many of this kind of category.
What are 6 Generations?
This is a fancy music word that means "very quiet"
Instead of writing out structure using words like verse and chorus, we can use these.
What are letters?
This word means "how fast or slow the beat is"
What is Tempo?
This type of chord is sometimes described as happy, but I prefer to describe it as "bright" and "open"
What is major?