Beatles keywords

Question 1

Tambura

Answer 1

Indian string instrument with 4 strings plucked continuously to create drone accompaniment. It has no frets and cannot be used to play a tune

Question 2

Musique concrète

Answer 2

technique of mixing recorded sounds, first developed by French experimental composers in the 1940s

Question 3

Sitar

Answer 3

main melodic string instrument of Indian subcontinent, plucked

Question 4

Manipulated tape techniques

Answer 4

Apply slight pressure to tape spool to pitch bend sound by slightly affecting speed

Question 5

Leslie cabinet

Answer 5

Combined amplifier and loudspeaker that projects signal from electric instruments and modifies sound by rotating baffle chamber in front of loud speaker

Question 6

Mandolin

Answer 6

String instrument in lute family, plucked

Question 7

Barbershop

Answer 7

All same gender, popular choral form characterised by a capella singing with 3 voices harmonising to melody of 4th voice

Question 8

Tape loops

Answer 8

Loops of magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns or dense layers of sound when played on tape recorder

Question 9

Strophic

Answer 9

one part form, AAA

Question 10

Mixolydian mode

Answer 10

5th mode of major scale, notable for flattened 7th creating question-like tension often found in blues and jazz

Question 11

Aeolian mode

Answer 11

Diatonic scale, natural minor scale, whwwhww

Question 12

Dorian mode

Answer 12

Starts on 2nd degree of major sale

Question 13

Artificial double tracking

Answer 13

Analogue recording technique designed to enhance sound of voices or instruments during mixing process