20th Century Flashcards
What is “Consonance”?
- Notes and chords that sound nice when played together
What is “Dissonance”?
- Notes and chords that clash when played together
What is “Minimalism”?
- Simple music
- Ideas change slowly over time
What is a “Steel Band”?
- West Indian band
- Steel drums, pans
Define “World Instruments”
- Music from all around the world
What is “Swing” music?
- Dancing music
- Fast Jazz
- Deeper sound, ritz
What is “Rock” music?
- Heavy driving beat
- Electric guitar, bass, drum kit
What is “Rapping”?
- Fast paced words
What is “Indian” music?
- Music from India
- Sitar, tabla
What is “Reggae” music?
- Jamaican music
- Syncopated
- Bob Marley
What is “African” music?
- Music from Africa
- Congo drums,
What is “Blues” music?
- Jazz, developed by slaves
- Slower, sad
What is “Rock ‘n’ Roll” music?
- Mixture of blues, country, gospel and jazz
- Elvis
Define “Latin American” music?
- South American music
- Tango, samba, salsa, cha-cha
What is “Gospel” music?
- Afro-American music
- Religious, soulful
What is “Jazz” music?
- Improvisation
- Sax, trumpets
What is “Ragtime” music?
- Early, black American music
- Vamp, piano, syncopated
- Silent movies
What is “Pop” music?
- Catchy, popular
- Cheesy
What is a “Middle 8”?
- Bridge
- 8 bars long
What is “Reverb”?
- Echo effect
- Different acoustics
What is “Atonal”?
- Without a key
- Not major or minor
What is “Distortion”?
- Fuzzy effect
- Electric guitar
What is an “Ostinato”?
- Short repeated pattern
What is “Impressionism”?
- Ideas merge and change to create blurred outline
- Debussy, Ravel, Dukes
What is the “Whole Tone Scale”?
- Scale containing no semitones but built entirely on whole tones
- Dreamy sound
- Impressionistic
What is a “Semitone”?
- Distance from a key to the nearest key
What is a “Tone”?
- Two semitones
- Always a key between a tone
Define “Musique Concrete”
- Natural sounds which are transformed into music
- Cutting, re-assembling, playing backwards, slowing down, speeding up
What are “Harmonics”?
- High eerie sounds
- String instrument
What are “Time Changes”?
- Changing time signature often
- Unsettled feel
- Difficult to count beat
Define “Irregular Time Signatures”
- Unusual time signatures
- 5 or 7 bpb
- Used with Time Changes
Define “Simple Time”
- Beat divides into 1 and 2 and
- 2/4 or 4/4
Define “Compound Time”
- When beat divides into 3
- 1 and a 2 and a 3
Define “Cross Rhythm “
- Mixture of Compound and Simple time together
- Cold-cup-of-tea
What is “Jazz Funk”?
- Jazz improvisation and amplified instruments and character of Rock
What is an “Added 6th”?
- Used in Jazz and Popular
- Bohemian Rhapsody
What is “Soul” music?
- Afro-American popular music
- Blues, gospel, strong emotions
- Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Blues Brothers
What is a “Cluster”?
- Type of Discord
- All notes clash, and are close toegether
What is a “Discord”
- A dissonant chord
