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Speed of a song?
TEMPO
A combination of a melody and it's accompaniment?
HARMONY
Describes the way in which different musical sounds are combined?
TEXTURE
What pattern is quite clear in a minuet form of music (Mozart)?
CADNECES
The first thing to note about Mozart is that it is a?
MINUET
"It Don't Mean A Thing" is an exampe of what kind of music?
SWING
This kind of music is used to communicate with the spirits of ancestors and guardians of the tribe?
MBIRA MUSIC
A single note of the Shakuhachi is said to take someone to?
NIRVANA
The Shakuhachi was often used in what kind of ceremony?
RELIGIOUS
How long is a shaku?
A FOOT
A bamboo flute with fiver fingr holes?
SHAKUHACHI
Speed of the rhythm?
TEMPO
Cadence?
A POINT OF RESTING
Most of the instruments playing at the same time?
HOMOPHONIC
Who invented the saxophone?
EMANUAL SAX
Duke ellington is known for?
SWING MUSIC
AKA elevator music?
MUZAK
Muzak?
A NEGATIVE TERM FOR MUSIC (AKA ELEVATOR MUSIC)
What are some examples of precussions?
-DRUMS
-PIANO
Precussion?
AN INSTRUMENT YOU STRIKE
What are some examples of brass instruments?
-TRUMPET
-TUBA
-TROMBONE
What are some examples of woodwinds?
-FLUTE
-CLARINET
-OBOE
-ENGLISH HORN
What are some examples of string instruments?
-VIOLIN
-HARP
-GUITAR
-BASS
-CELLO
Music played in smaller groupings?
CHAMBER
Between alto and tenor?
COUNTER TENOR
Between male tenor and bass tenor?
BARITONE
Bass?
MALE
Tenor?
MALE
Alto?
FEMALE
Soprano?
FEMALE
Long self contained unit of a larger work. (Playing one section of a song)
MOVEMENTS
Involves a solo voice with chordal accomplishment such as a folk singer accompanying herself as on the guitar?
SONG TEXTURE
Cadence?
ENDING POINT OF A SECTION OF A SONG OR THE COMPLETE END OF A SONG. (LIKE A PERIOD AT THE END OF A SENTENCE)
Scale?
AN ASCENDING/DESCENDING GROUP OF NOTES
Off beat (different beats at once)
SYNCOPATION
What is music divided into?
BARS AND MEASURES
A piano is an example of what kind of sound?
SOFT SOUND
How loud or soft a sound is?
DYNAMICS
Brazil, Africa, India, Cuba all have a sence of?
RHYTHM
Esataric?
AMBIGUOUS, SHADY, NOT CLEAR
Orchestra backing up a singer?
HARMONY
Texture?
AMOUNT OF INSTRUMENTS PLAYING AT ONCE
What do we think of as music?
-RHYTHM
-TEXTURE
-MELODY
-HARMONY
-TONE COLOR
True/False

Music is a univeral language?
TRUE
Who gave the beatles more of an R&B sound?
BILLY PRESTON
The Beatles?
LONG AND WINDING ROAD
The mbira is AKA?
THUMB PIANO
The djembe is AKA
DRUM
The belafon is AKA?
XYLOPHONE
Pakistan?
NUSRAD ALI KHAN
One singer or several singing at the same time?
MONOPHONIC
Multile singers at the same time or music playing at the same time?
POLYPHONIC
African music and dance is music associated with?
DRUMS
What are some examples of precaussions?
-XYLOPHONE
-DRUM
-THUMB PIANO
The bamboo flute is commonly known in what country?
JAPAN
Producing two tones at the same time is known as?
HARMONIC SINGING
The sitar is a common instrument in what country?
INDIA
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