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

Stage and Screen Terms 

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: Employs quite sophisticated musical techniques and is 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

Non-western Terms 

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