Unit 2 Review

The music for The Rite of Spring was composed by__________.

What is a rhythmic Latin American dance with the basic pattern of three steps and a shuffle?

What word refers to an athletic dance that includes kicks and inward leg rotations?

What word refers to a type of spontaneous musical invention?

A dance that became popular during the Jazz Age of the 20's was_________.

What is a repeated musical figure called?

What term refers to the emphasis placed on a sound or pitch in music?

What term designates groups or sets of beats divided by vertical lines on the musical staff?

Riverdance created a renewed interest in__________.

Ludwig Van Beethoven used__________in his Symphony number 7.

The roots of many Latin American and Caribbean musical styles can be traced to__________.

Classical ballet has roots in European court dances.

The Irish jig has a simple duple feeling while the reel has a compound duple meter/triple beat.

An African Brazilian dance that is faster and jazzier than the tango.

What word refers to a refined style of classical dance emphasizing verticality of the body?

Instruments of the Bamileke people.

What term is used to describe a jazzy dance in which couples swing, balance,and twirl?

20th century musical from that radically changed the course of popular music was_________.

Name two Hawaiian instruments that accompany the Hula.

What is melodic rhythm?

_______is a dance in which dancers produce sounds by metal plates on their shoes.

How does the Blue Man group take a very simple musical idea and make it sound richly complex?

The Bamileke people perform highly rhythmic music to accompany their__________.

What word means deliberate shifts of the accent so that it goes against the steady beat.

Leonard Bernstein wrote tango and samba music for West Side Story.

Rimsky Korsakov used what in Procession of the Nobles?

Since the first beat of a group is accented, hearing the accent helps the listern to find the__

The Twist was both a song and dance performed by the rock singer Chubby Checker.

What term is used to refer to a Latin American dance performed at a moderately slow, walk pace?

What term designates a type of ballroom dance that originated in Cuba?

Texas-Mexicans or tejano musicians created dance music based on the triple waltz rhythm.

Describe the aural aspect of music in which a certain number beats are grouped together.

A dance that features the breakaway, when dance partners separate to improvise is called_______

What word designates a dance music created by Mexicans in Texas?

The body movement and gestures of the hula__________.

The body movement and gestures of the hula may be performed in a seated position.