Unit 1 and 2 Review

Two external characteristics of music are __ and ___.

The ___, invented by Thomas Edison, made music more accessible to everyone.

The emphasis place on a beat_________.

Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has won Grammies for both ___ and ___ styles of music.

The space that music appears to carve out for itself _________.

An old French dance, rather slow and stately, in triple meter_________.

_________ is traditional Texas-Mexican dance music influenced by the European polka and waltz.

Different types of music have different characteristics. Another name for musical characteristics is _____.

"La Bamba" is a sones jarochos,a traditional song, from the state of ____, in Mexico

How is Native American music passed down from generation to generation?

A dance in triple meter, made famous in Vienna in the 1800s _________.

A warrior dance from Cameroon.

Rock, heavy metal, top 40, rap, and reggae are types of _____ music.

Spontaneous music invention _________.

In __, singers are accompanied by different types of stringed instruments or flutes.

In jazz music, when players "take a solo," they are _________.

When beats are grouped in twos, the meter is _________.

A Mexican instrumental ensemble consisting of Violins, tumpets, and guitars.

The way music paces itself and moves through time _________.

A fixed number of beats in a series that repeats itself over and over

The ability to discern musical characteristics and describe them.

Two or more different rhythms sounding together, often in different meters are called_________.

The Italian musical term for "a return to the previous rate of speed" is _________.

An Afro-Brazilian dance that is quite fast and jazzy _________.

Professionals who study the music of different cultural groups.

Jamaican dance music, mixing African and Caribbean rhythms _________.

A musical style where all performers sing/play the same melody, but in a manner appropriate to each voice or instrument.

A style of "art: music, as distinguished from popular music.

Allegro is a musical tempo marking that means ________.

African ___ expressed brotherhood, pride and tribal unity. They were often prohibited by colonial rulers.

A set of instrumental pieces, each in the character of a dance _________.

Because people in the United States come from all different parts of the globe, American music represents many ________.

_________ was a German composer, organist, and church music director.

Customs, ideas, tastes, and beliefs acquired from a person's background.

The ability to look at the world from another person's perspective.

A Spanish term for "mixed culture."

A composition usuall written in three lengthy sections or movements featuring interplay between one or more soloist

A rhythmic measure of a certain number of beats _________.

Gradually growing faster _________.

The distinct manner of character of musical expression.

The rumba, mambo, calypso, and samba are examples of dances from _________.

_________ was an American composer famous for writing catchy, syncopated piano pieces.

A tintal is a sixteen-beat long _________ in Indian music.

A Latin American dance performed at a moderately slow, walk-like tempo_________.

_____ was the birthplace of Jazz.

When beats are groupled in threes, the meter is _________.

Name a composer(s) from the Classical period of music.

A Chinese musical art form that combines instruments, speaking, singing, acrobatics, martial arts and pantomime.

The pace at which the music moves _________.

We do not know much about ancient music, because it was not ____ or _____.

The blending of Spanish, Indian, and African cultures in Mexico is known by the Spanish term ____.

Composers in the Classical period were inspired by the simple, uncluttered architecture of ancient_________.

The requinto jarocho, jarana, guitarron, and vihuela are types of ___ used in Mexican Music.

Deliberate shifts of the accent so that it conflicts with the steady pulse and tries to upset the steady pulse ________.

A popular style of music that developed in America during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

_________, popular in the early twentieth century, is an American stle of music with catchy, syncopated melodies.

What common elements can be found in music from all over the world.

Gradually growing slowing _________.

A single melody with chordal accompaniment.

The quality of sound.