Concepts

Question 1

accelerando

Answer 1

music gets faster

Question 2

rallentando

Answer 2

music slows down

Question 3

diminuendo

Answer 3

music quieter

Question 4

crescendo

Answer 4

music louder

Question 5

pentatonic scale

Answer 5

5 note scale found in blues music

Question 6

ornament

Answer 6

decorates the Melody eg. grace notes or trill

Question 7

descant

Answer 7

harmony part for a second instrument or voice

Question 8

dissonance

Answer 8

two notes don not sound nice together

Question 9

walking bass

Answer 9

bass line usually played on a double bass or bass guitar and found in jazz

Question 10

plucking

Answer 10

you pluck a strung instrument like a guitar

Question 11

strumming

Answer 11

you play all the strings on a guitar

Question 12

staccato

Answer 12

adds an accent to a note to make it played snappy

Question 13

legato

Answer 13

notes are played smoothly

Question 14

trills

Answer 14

ornaments that moves rapidly between two notes

Question 15

syncopation

Answer 15

played off the beat

Question 16

blues

Answer 16

style of music

sung by africans americans in salve trade

Question 17

symphony

Answer 17

large group of instrumentalises who play a piece all together- orchestra

Question 18

jazz

Answer 18

style of music
originated in orleans
very up beated often syncopated

Question 19

tonality

Answer 19

is it major or minor

Question 20

africian music

Answer 20

mostly drum music

Question 21

indian music

Answer 21

features sitar and tabla

Question 22

reggae

Answer 22

form of jazz music originated in jamaica in the 1960