Definitions - Popular Music & Jazz

Question 1

Musique concrète

Answer 1

Collage technique where sounds are recorded on tape then processed in
different:
Ways
Speeds
Backwards
Spliced
Looped
Superimposed (playing over top)

Question 2

Mandolin

Answer 2

Small plucked wire-string instrument usually played with a plectrum

Question 3

Leslie cabinet

Answer 3

Large wooden box containing an amplifier and 2 sets of revolving speakers - one with high, one with low frequencies

Question 4

Tambura

Answer 4

Stringed Indian instrument
Similar to sitar but with fewer strings (usually 4) and no frets
Plays drone accompaniment

Question 5

Bebop

Answer 5

Virtuosic type of jazz
Developed in 1940s America
Fast tempos, intricate melodies, complex chords and chord progressions

Question 6

Multiphonic

Answer 6

Extended technique that produces chords on an instrument which usually only has one note at a time

Question 7

Counterpoint

Answer 7

contrasting/complimenting

Question 8

Slash chords

Answer 8

In pop music
Chord inversion

C/E (C major in first inversion)

Question 9

Add chords

Answer 9

Added note chord
Extra note added to basic chord

Question 10

Sus chords

Answer 10

Suspended chords
3rd of a chord replaced by another
Sound neither major or minor