Indigenous Music
African Rhythm relied heavily on this one of the two main building blocks of music. In fact, one man was quoted as saying "the ______ is everything"
What is rhythm?
This type of African music was a direct descendant of the music from the old country
What are Spirituals?
These are the two main building blocks of music. Without them, you essentially are reduced to sound, not music
What are Pitch and Rhythm
Many asian countries seem to favor having this type of wind instrument in their folk music, likely due to the simplicity of making these.
What are flutes?
Scales are primarily focused on this one of the two main building blocks of music.
What is pitch?
Israel invented this style of music that has a very jazzy quality to it.
What is Klezmer?
From the spirituals, we got the birth of this style of music that started to diverge into the later styles of African American Music.
What is Blues?
When we take a note and double its frequency or halve its frequency, we get a 2:1 ratio. In music, we have a name for that referring to it being the eighth note away from the starting note, and we even call them by the same letter when writing them out.
What is an Octave?
Japan has made its mark on orchestral music repertoire with its soundtracks to these types of films
What are animes?
When we take an octave and divide it down into a series of pitches between the octave notes, we call it this.
Examples are heptatonic (seven note) and pentatonic (five note).
What is a scale?
Indigenous to the middle east as a whole, it got its name from Israel, where it was used extensively for ceremonial and religious functions.
What is the Shofar?
From Blues, we had composers like Scott Joplin writing music for this style of music, often played on Piano, and is now standard in the piano repertoire.
What is Ragtime?
The smallest distance between two notes in western music.
Japan also made its contributions to orchestral music with its soundtracks to these entertainment mediums.
What are video games?
What is a Pentatonic scale?
(penta = five; tonos = note)
This type of singing comes form places in Western Asia, where it has become emblematic of the regions of Nepal and Tibet.
What is Overtone or Throat Singing?
From Ragtime mixed with Blues, we got this style of music that was an invention of the African American communities and has become "the Music of America"
What is Jazz?
In non-western music, we can further break down the distance between notes and we call them this.
What are Microtones?
What are lutes?
A seven note scale such as a major or minor scale is referred to by its Greek nomenclature, which is this.
What is a Heptatonic Scale
(hepta = seven; tonos = note)
This style of violin playing was invented by India, and differs extensively from classical violin technique
What is Carnatic Violin?
From Jazz, the music was further energized and adapted until we arrived at this style of music that became really popular during the 50s and 60s, though with some major pushback.
What is Rock n' Roll?
When the music has its emphasis fall off the beat rather than solely on the beat, we give it this name.
What is syncopation?
Many Asian countries seem to have a version of this type of stringed instrument that could be described as a "table harp"
What are zithers?
Western music calls it an octave, because the top note is the eighth note that repeats. Therefore, we have this many different notes in the scale before the octave.
What is seven?