Concepts for listening

Question 0

What is a Alberti bass?

Answer 0

Style of accompaniment consisting of broken chords played by the left hand

Question 1

What are the 2 cadences?

Answer 1

Imperfect-Dosnt sound finished

Perfect-finished

Question 2

What is an anacrusis?

Answer 2

Group of notes which act as a lead-in to main body of a melody

Question 3

What is pizzicato?

Answer 3

It is a string technique where the string is plucked and not bowed

Question 4

What is blues music? And give examples

Answer 4

Up beat, examples: jazz, boogie-woogie, rock n roll

Question 5

What is a waulking bass?

Answer 5

Distinctive bass part that is like a scale going up and down, a boogie woogie has this

Question 6

What is a bothy ballad?

Answer 6

It is like builders singing and farming

Question 7

What is compound time?

Answer 7

2/4

Question 8

What is a counter melody?

Answer 8

Played against the the main melody

Question 9

What is Dixieland music?

Answer 9

style of jazz music, played by small bands-usually trombone, clarinet or saxophone which is known as the frontline, the backline consists of brass bass(tuba), banjo, drums and piano

Question 10

What is double-stopping?

Answer 10

Stopping two notes at a time on stringed instruments

Question 11

What is a drone?

Answer 11

A continuous note such as the bagpipes

Question 12

What is a Gaelic psalm?

Answer 12

Types of religious, unaccompanied vocal music

Question 13

What is a glissando?

Answer 13

Sliding note

Question 14

What is imitation?

Answer 14

When an instrument plays a section of music and then another instrument repeats it

Question 15

What is a clarsach?

Answer 15

A Scottish harp

Question 16

What is a bodhran?

Answer 16

An Irish wooden drum, help in one hand and played with a wooden beater

Question 17

Describe folk music

Answer 17

Very alive and well

Question 18

Describe Scottish dance music

Answer 18

Played by a Scottish country dance band

Question 19

What is a folk group?

Answer 19

A group of two or more musicians who perfeom music in a traditional style and are usually accompanied by a guitar.0

Question 20

What is a reel?

Answer 20

A quick dance, in simple time : 2/4 or 4/4 you can hear the sounds “running reel, running reel”

Question 21

What is a jig?

Answer 21

A quick dance in compound time : 6/8 - jumpy and skippy rhythms
-you can hear “skippity-skippity”

Question 22

What is a strathspey?

Answer 22

A slow dance at a walking pace
-in simple time : 4/4
It is the only dance to contain scottish snaps

Question 23

What is a waltz?

Answer 23

A slow dance
In 3/4 time
Count : 1,2,3 1,2,3
A dance at marching time

Question 24

What is a grace note?

Answer 24

Like a trill

Question 25

What is a vamp?

Answer 25

A rhythmic accompaniment with a bass note played on the beat and a chord off the beat and it is usually played by piano of guitar

Question 26

What is the waulking song?

Answer 26

Working song | There is a thud song

Question 27

What is a bothy ballad?

Answer 27

Sung by men at work | Usually unacommpanied

Question 28

What is a score ballad?

Answer 28

Tells a story A folk song Often accompanied by instruments

Question 29

What is mouth music?

Answer 29

Music sung with no instruments | Music to dance to

Question 30

What is Gaelic psalm singing?

Answer 30

It is slow and has an eerie sound to it The people sing in unison (Church music)

Question 31

What is syllabic?

Answer 31

It is a voice party and it has 1 note per syllable

Question 32

What is melismatic?

Answer 32

Lots of notes to one syllable | Glorrriaaa

Question 33

What is an ostinato?

Answer 33

Bit that is repeated

Question 34

What is a tabla?

Answer 34

Drums

Question 35

What is a sitar?

Answer 35

A long Indian guitar

Question 36

What does homophonic mean?

Answer 36

When the chords and tune are ontop of the melody

Question 37

What is polyphonic?

Answer 37

When the instruments are all played at the same time

Question 38

What Is reggae music?

Answer 38

Chilled out sounding

Question 40

What instruments would be heard in Dixieland or a traditional bass band?

Answer 40

Clarinet Trombone Trumpet

Question 41

What instruments would usually be heard in a jazz trio?

Answer 41

Double bass Drums Piano

Question 42

What is a blues scale?

Answer 42

A series of notes commonly found in jazz - featuring the flattened 5th, 6th and 7th note

Question 43

What is slapping?

Answer 43

A method of playing the bass guitar, the thumb is used to hit the side of the strings

Question 58

What instruments are normally played in a swing?

Answer 58

Saxophones Trombones Trumpets