20th Century

Question 1

What is “Consonance”?

Answer 1

• Notes and chords that sound nice when played together

Question 2

What is “Dissonance”?

Answer 2

• Notes and chords that clash when played together

Question 3

What is “Minimalism”?

Answer 3

• Simple music

- Ideas change slowly over time

Question 4

What is a “Steel Band”?

Answer 4

• West Indian band

- Steel drums, pans

Question 5

Define “World Instruments”

Answer 5

• Music from all around the world

Question 6

What is “Swing” music?

Answer 6

• Dancing music
• Fast Jazz
• Deeper sound, ritz

Question 7

What is “Rock” music?

Answer 7

• Heavy driving beat

- Electric guitar, bass, drum kit

Question 8

What is “Rapping”?

Answer 8

• Fast paced words

Question 9

What is “Indian” music?

Answer 9

• Music from India

- Sitar, tabla

Question 10

What is “Reggae” music?

Answer 10

• Jamaican music
• Syncopated
• Bob Marley

Question 11

What is “African” music?

Answer 11

• Music from Africa

- Congo drums,

Question 12

What is “Blues” music?

Answer 12

• Jazz, developed by slaves

- Slower, sad

Question 13

What is “Rock ‘n’ Roll” music?

Answer 13

• Mixture of blues, country, gospel and jazz

- Elvis

Question 14

Define “Latin American” music?

Answer 14

• South American music

- Tango, samba, salsa, cha-cha

Question 15

What is “Gospel” music?

Answer 15

• Afro-American music

- Religious, soulful

Question 16

What is “Jazz” music?

Answer 16

• Improvisation

- Sax, trumpets

Question 17

What is “Ragtime” music?

Answer 17

• Early, black American music
• Vamp, piano, syncopated
• Silent movies

Question 18

What is “Pop” music?

Answer 18

• Catchy, popular

- Cheesy

Question 19

What is a “Middle 8”?

Answer 19

• Bridge

- 8 bars long

Question 20

What is “Reverb”?

Answer 20

• Echo effect

- Different acoustics

Question 21

What is “Atonal”?

Answer 21

• Without a key

- Not major or minor

Question 22

What is “Distortion”?

Answer 22

• Fuzzy effect

- Electric guitar

Question 23

What is an “Ostinato”?

Answer 23

• Short repeated pattern

Question 24

What is “Impressionism”?

Answer 24

• Ideas merge and change to create blurred outline

- Debussy, Ravel, Dukes

Question 25

What is the “Whole Tone Scale”?

Answer 25

• Scale containing no semitones but built entirely on whole tones
• Dreamy sound
• Impressionistic

Question 26

What is a “Semitone”?

Answer 26

• Distance from a key to the nearest key

Question 27

What is a “Tone”?

Answer 27

• Two semitones

- Always a key between a tone

Question 28

Define “Musique Concrete”

Answer 28

• Natural sounds which are transformed into music

- Cutting, re-assembling, playing backwards, slowing down, speeding up

Question 29

What are “Harmonics”?

Answer 29

• High eerie sounds

- String instrument

Question 30

What are “Time Changes”?

Answer 30

• Changing time signature often
• Unsettled feel
• Difficult to count beat

Question 31

Define “Irregular Time Signatures”

Answer 31

• Unusual time signatures
• 5 or 7 bpb
• Used with Time Changes

Question 32

Define “Simple Time”

Answer 32

• Beat divides into 1 and 2 and

- 2/4 or 4/4

Question 33

Define “Compound Time”

Answer 33

• When beat divides into 3

- 1 and a 2 and a 3

Question 34

Define “Cross Rhythm “

Answer 34

• Mixture of Compound and Simple time together

- Cold-cup-of-tea

Question 35

What is “Jazz Funk”?

Answer 35

• Jazz improvisation and amplified instruments and character of Rock

Question 36

What is an “Added 6th”?

Answer 36

• Used in Jazz and Popular

- Bohemian Rhapsody

Question 37

What is “Soul” music?

Answer 37

• Afro-American popular music
• Blues, gospel, strong emotions
• Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Blues Brothers

Question 38

What is a “Cluster”?

Answer 38

• Type of Discord

- All notes clash, and are close toegether

Question 39

What is a “Discord”

Answer 39

• A dissonant chord