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What is a Alberti bass?

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Style of accompaniment consisting of broken chords played by the left hand

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What are the 2 cadences?

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Imperfect-Dosnt sound finished

Perfect-finished

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What is an anacrusis?

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Group of notes which act as a lead-in to main body of a melody

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What is pizzicato?

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It is a string technique where the string is plucked and not bowed

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What is blues music? And give examples

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Up beat, examples: jazz, boogie-woogie, rock n roll

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What is a waulking bass?

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Distinctive bass part that is like a scale going up and down, a boogie woogie has this

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What is a bothy ballad?

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It is like builders singing and farming

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What is compound time?

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2/4

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What is a counter melody?

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Played against the the main melody

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What is Dixieland music?

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style of jazz music, played by small bands-usually trombone, clarinet or saxophone which is known as the frontline, the backline consists of brass bass(tuba), banjo, drums and piano

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What is double-stopping?

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Stopping two notes at a time on stringed instruments

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What is a drone?

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A continuous note such as the bagpipes

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What is a Gaelic psalm?

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Types of religious, unaccompanied vocal music

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What is a glissando?

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Sliding note

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What is imitation?

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When an instrument plays a section of music and then another instrument repeats it

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What is a clarsach?

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A Scottish harp

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What is a bodhran?

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An Irish wooden drum, help in one hand and played with a wooden beater

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Describe folk music

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Very alive and well

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Describe Scottish dance music

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Played by a Scottish country dance band

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What is a folk group?

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A group of two or more musicians who perfeom music in a traditional style and are usually accompanied by a guitar.0

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What is a reel?

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A quick dance, in simple time : 2/4 or 4/4 you can hear the sounds “running reel, running reel”

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What is a jig?

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A quick dance in compound time : 6/8 - jumpy and skippy rhythms
-you can hear “skippity-skippity”

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What is a strathspey?

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A slow dance at a walking pace
-in simple time : 4/4
It is the only dance to contain scottish snaps

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What is a waltz?

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A slow dance
In 3/4 time
Count : 1,2,3 1,2,3
A dance at marching time

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What is a grace note?

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Like a trill

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What is a vamp?

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A rhythmic accompaniment with a bass note played on the beat and a chord off the beat and it is usually played by piano of guitar

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What is the waulking song?

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Working song

There is a thud song

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What is a bothy ballad?

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Sung by men at work

Usually unacommpanied

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What is a score ballad?

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Tells a story
A folk song
Often accompanied by instruments

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What is mouth music?

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Music sung with no instruments

Music to dance to

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What is Gaelic psalm singing?

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It is slow and has an eerie sound to it
The people sing in unison
(Church music)

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What is syllabic?

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It is a voice party and it has 1 note per syllable

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What is melismatic?

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Lots of notes to one syllable

Glorrriaaa

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What is an ostinato?

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Bit that is repeated

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What is a tabla?

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Drums

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What is a sitar?

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A long Indian guitar

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What does homophonic mean?

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When the chords and tune are ontop of the melody

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What is polyphonic?

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When the instruments are all played at the same time

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What Is reggae music?

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Chilled out sounding

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What instruments would be heard in Dixieland or a traditional bass band?

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Clarinet
Trombone
Trumpet

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What instruments would usually be heard in a jazz trio?

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Double bass
Drums
Piano

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What is a blues scale?

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A series of notes commonly found in jazz - featuring the flattened 5th, 6th and 7th note

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What is slapping?

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A method of playing the bass guitar, the thumb is used to hit the side of the strings

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What instruments are normally played in a swing?

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Saxophones
Trombones
Trumpets

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