Key Words from tests

Question 1

Indian Flute

Answer 1

Bansuri

Question 2

When the Tabla joins in but is an instrumental?

Answer 2

Gat, and is in Indian classical music

Question 3

Similar to sitar but plays drone

Answer 3

Tanpura

Question 4

word for Rhythm in indian classical music

Answer 4

Tala

Question 5

Drums that have two pitches in Indian classical music

Answer 5

Tabla

Question 6

Type of instrument that plays melody in Indian Classical music

Answer 6

Sitar

Question 7

Means either the scale or type of music in seasons or days or celebrations

Answer 7

Raga

Question 8

word for less than a semitone and can sound out of tune

Answer 8

Microtone

Question 9

A slow introduction section, no drums, no time signature or pulse

Answer 9

Alap

Question 10

Word for describing sound colour

Answer 10

Timbre

Question 11

1,4,5

Answer 11

Primary chords

Question 12

off the beat

Answer 12

syncopation

Question 13

one person plays or sings something and the rest of the group responds back

Answer 13

Call and response

Question 14

drums made out of steel

Answer 14

Steel Pans, calypso instrument

Question 15

an instrument in calypso that has beads around the outside

Answer 15

Cabasa

Question 16

instrument in calypso that is a scraper

Answer 16

guiro

Question 17

when you tremble a note several times

Answer 17

tremolo

Question 18

Word for Modern Calypso music

Answer 18

Soca

Question 19

Percussion section (untuned) in calypso music

Answer 19

Engine room

Question 20

Moving up step by step (melody)

Answer 20

Stepwise

Question 21

Based on a scale (melody)

Answer 21

scalic

Question 22

Melody has a gap in it (doesn’t move stepwise)

Answer 22

Leap

Question 23

2 semitones

Answer 23

A tone

Question 24

shortest distance between 2 notes

Answer 24

Semitone

Question 25

Usually happy and bright sounding

Answer 25

Major

Question 26

Usually sad and darker sound

Answer 26

Minor

Question 27

Moves by semitones, every note is played and has clashy chords

Answer 27

Chromatic

Question 28

Repeat exactly same thing in same way

Answer 28

Repetition

Question 29

Moves up or down

Answer 29

Sequence

Question 30

one part copies another part

Answer 30

Imitation

Question 31

Short repeated pattern

Answer 31

Ostinato

Question 32

Very loud

Answer 32

Fortissimo, ff

Question 33

loud

Answer 33

forte, f

Question 34

Moderately loud

Answer 34

Mezzo forte, mf

Question 35

medium quiet

Answer 35

mezzo piano, mp

Question 36

pianissimo

Answer 36

very quiet, pp

Question 37

getting louder

Answer 37

crescendo

Question 38

gradually getting quieter

Answer 38

diminuendo

Question 39

emphasises a note

Answer 39

accent

Question 40

very loud accent

Answer 40

sforzando

Question 41

what is articulation?

Answer 41

how specific notes or passages are played or sung

Question 42

the word for when two or more independent melodic lines performed at the same time

Answer 42

Contrapuntal, contrapuntaly

Question 43

A musical texture where two or more parts move independently of each other

Answer 43

Polyphonic

Question 44

Two or more people performing the same note or melody

Answer 44

unison

Question 45

Process of changing from one key to another

Answer 45

modulation

Question 46

When two different rhythms are heard together with different accented beats (different time signatures together)

Answer 46

cross rhythm

Question 47

Two different rhythms heard played simultaneously

Answer 47

polyrhythm

Question 48

The first note of the scale used by the piece of music, known as the home key of the piece of music.

Answer 48

tonic

Question 49

The fifth note of the scale or the key based on the fifth note of the tonic key eg if the original key is C major, the dominant is G major.

Answer 49

Dominant

Question 50

A group of notes sung to the same syllable

Answer 50

Melisma

Question 51

A musical structure with three sections with similar outer sections and a contrasting central one (A B A).

Answer 51

Ternary

Question 52

Male vocal in highest register

Answer 52

Falsetto

Question 53

An instruction to play the notes crisply, detached, which is shown in the music by placing dots above or below the notes being played.

Answer 53

staccato

Question 54

What is cadence?

Answer 54

A chord progression that forms an ending of a phrase or section or piece of music

Question 55

What is the word for an unaccompanied showpiece for the soloist in a concerto

Answer 55

A Cadenza