Music appreciation final

Ragtime

Piano style generally in duple meter, performed at a moderate march tempo, popular from the 1890s to about 1915.

Cool Jazz

Style that emerged in the early 1950s that was related to Bop but calmer and more relaxed in character.

Swing

Style popular from 1935 to 1945, characterized by arrangements for about 15 musicians.

Fusion

Combination of jazz improvisation with rock rhythms and tone colors.

Free Jazz

Style that emerged in the early 1960s that wasn’t based on regular forms or established chord patterns.

Bebop

Style that evolved in the early 1940s, characterized by complex rhythmic patterns, asymmetrical melodic phrases, solo improvisation and irregular accents.

Blues

Form of vocal and instrumental music usually characterized by a 12-Bar chord progression over a steady 4/4 beat.

New Orleans Style

Style developed in the early 1900s, characterized by collective improvisation of solo performers over a clearly marked beat.

Chorus

The main section of a musical comedy song.

Concept Musical

Musical theater work based more on an idea than on traditional linear plot.

Verse

The introductory section of a musical comedy song.

Revere

A variety show without a plot, but with a unifying idea.

Operetta

Musical theater work that combines song, spoken dialog, and dance, employing sophisticated musical techniques and generally set outside of the US.

Vaudeville

A variety show with songs, comedy, juggling acrobats, and animal acts, but no plot.

Cue

A musical passage that accompanies a scene in a film.

Tabla

Pair of single-headed drums played by one performer, popular in North India.

Sitar

Long necked lute with 7 strings, 9-13 sympathetically vibrating strings and 19-23 movable frets, popular in North India.

Shakuhachi

End-blown bamboo flute with 5 holes.

Mbira

Melodic idiophone with tongues of metal or bamboo attached to a sounding board.

Raga

Pattern of notes to create melody used in Indian music.

Tambura

Long necked lute with 4 metal strings used to provide a continuous drone in Indian music.

Koto

Instrument with 13 strings stretched over a hollow rectangular sound board, popular in Japan.

Tala

Repeated cycle of beats; rhythmic pattern.

Call and Response

Performance style in which the phrases of a soloist are repeatedly answered by those of a chorus.