Music Appreciation Weeks 1-3 review

This is a form particularly used in Blues Music.

Steady beat. The "heartbeat" of music.

In what part of the U.S.A. is African American Folk Music rooted?

Whose culture did early Americans borrow to help shape their own?

All sounds have these. EXCEPT.....

Which city hosts one of the best known Folk festivals in Rhode Island.

We split music into these categories based to help us understand it better.

This is someone who performs in any medium. Can also perform with creativity and sensitivity.

What does A Capella mean?

The term for a music styling where one will lower the pitch and then return to the same pitch.

This is the term for the rate of speed of a piece of music.

Loudness or softness of music varies with intensity or energy expended in producing the sound

A tuba and a female rock vocalist have similar timbres.

Narrative Ballads, Children's Music, and Work songs are all types of Folk Music

This is a beat pattern that is grouped in "threes". STRONG-weak-weak, STRONG-weak-weak.

The shape or structure of a piece of music. How it is organized.

Other ethnic groups brought all of these traditions to America to shape the culture EXCEPT.....

This is the term for when people pass down songs by word of mouth.

Which artist added the electric guitar to folk music.

The illegal downloading of copying of music.

This type of folk music promotes union organization, and political candidates.

The type of listening done when one listens attentively to understand the musical process.

Which of these is not a type of Folk Music.

This is the science of sound and the physical basis for music.

Music has many purposes all over the world and everyone has their own personal music tastes.

Which is not an element of sound?

All of these musicians were prominent blues artist EXCEPT...

A point of view that requires a respect for values and music of different nations.

Most traditional Folk Music was created by professional composers and lyricists.

This is a job or career that is part of the "business" side of music.

This term is used for sounds that occur as a sequence of pitches. Tend to be smooth or choppy.

This term is used for the "classical" music of a particular culture.

These help us organize information and classifying music.

This term is a resurgence or return to popularity of an exciting style of music.

These people do the research on the music of a culture, write about it, and teach about it.

All sounds producing devices possess their own distinctive tone qualities, or timbers.

The composers symbol which can be translated into musical sounds.... on paper.

Music is a business where only top artists are needed for the industry to survive.

The acronym R&B stands for...

When music is organized vertically, the pitches are heard simultaneously. This is known as...