Latin America
The most popular style of music in Latin America.
What is salsa?
In West Africa, music is inseparable from this.
What is dance?
Music in the Middle East usually uses these intervals that are smaller than half steps in Western music.
What are quarter tones?
This is an event that celebrates Native American culture and heritage through clothing, games, food, music, and dance.
What is a powwow?
This instrument is a long, hollow tube that creates various tones when blown through.
What is didgeridoo?
Latin America is made up of Spanish and Portuguese speaking regions of Caribbean, Central America, and this continent.
What is South America?
The main instrument in West African music.
What is the drum?
Music in East Asia is based off this scale.
What is the pentatonic scale?
Many Native American songs use this scale.
Didgeridoo players must master this technique, which is breathing in and out simultaneously.
What is circular breathing?
This style of music is performed with a dramatic and passionate dance.
What is tango?
In melodies, this is used when a leader sings a melody that is repeated by a crowd.
What is call and response?
The use of a drone (low, constant note) makes this unimportant in Middle Eastern music.
What are harmonies?
Melodies are often sung with several singers in this texture.
What is monophonic texture?
The cultural group of smaller islands east of Australia
What is Polynesia?
This stripped down, jazzy style features soft vocals and a mellow feel.
What is bossa nova?
This is a rhythm pattern where 3 beats are played over 2 beats in the same space.
What is hemiola?
What is the erhu?
This a dance that is specialized and only performed by selected dancers at powwows.
What is grass dance?
Music is defined by community-based chanting and singing called this in Polynesia
What is mele?
This jazzy music features guitar, flute, pandera, and many other instruments.
What is choro?
This small instrument is like a mini piano.
What is the mbira?
This instrument is pear-shaped like a lute with pairs of strings near each other to create quarter tones.
What is the oud?
This is when musical phrases start on a relatively high pitch and end on a relatively low pitch.
What is a descending contour?
Traditional music of Australia is based around this, a spiritual trance world where dreamers interact with spirits and each other
What is dreamtime?