Theory
The distance between two pitches.
What is interval?
This genre is focused on being emotional and highly expressive encompassing philosophical, artistic, and literary themes.
What is romanticism?
Mr Gates' favorite composer!
David Maslanka OR Gene Koshinski
This Mediterranean country has an incredibly strong dance culture, is composed of several islands, and is known for having complex written mythos.
What is Greece?
This single note takes up exactly 3 beats in 4/4 time
What is a dotted half-note?
The ending of a musical phrase
What is cadence?
Many european classical/romantic composers did not compose for this dominant modern woodwind.
What is the Saxophone? (Was not invented yet)
This time signature has half of the rhythmic value and beats per measure as 4/4.
Cut time
This is why Musicians were so popular on the front lines of battle in the early American wars.
What is relaying orders/messages.
This single note takes up 2 beats in 6/8 time
What is a quarter note
flipping a melody upside down
What is inversion?
This genre featured early artists such as Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard.
What is rock and roll?
a short succession of notes producing a single impression; a brief melodic or rhythmic formula out of which longer passages are developed.
What is a motif
This continent is where call/response style music can be traced back to.
What is Africa?
This single note takes up 4 beats in 7/8 time
What is a half-note?
Playing a melody backwards
What is retrograde?
This genre was known for it's religious roots and was rooted in African American slave songs.
What is Gospel.
Known as the King of Swing, this clarinet player challenged the preconceived notions of jazz just being a music for clubs and was one of the first to form his band with both white and black musicians on stage.
Who is Benny Goodman?
This was for a time the capital of music in the European world, particularly from the late 19th century to 1938
What is Vienna?
This single note Takes up 8 beats in 4/4 Time
What is a Breve?
A triad consisting of two major thirds
What is augmented?
This Genre was a response to the romanticization of the cowboy archetype, and featured artists such as Lorne Greene, Marty Robins, and Johnny Horton,
What is Country-western/Folk Songs?
A defining characteristic of this form is that it is typically composed of an exposition, development, and recapitulation of the main themes.
What is Sonata form
This instrumental archetype is common in Indonesia and featured in Gamelan Music.
What is Metallophones?
This single note takes up 1+3/4 of a beat in 4/4 time?
a double-dotted quarter note