Music Genres
Across
- 1. A rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted
- 4. Pieces sung by a choir
- 5. Music that is passed from generation to generation
- 6. Music directly imitating styles of the past
- 9. Has heavy band, and sometimes has aggressive vocals
- 10. Sub-genre of popular music
- 13. Songs without vocals
- 14. It is a form of electronic dance music.
- 17. Known for its highly sophisticated instrumental music
- 18. An up-tempo style of disco music characterized by deep bass rhythms, piano or synthesizer melodies, and soul music singing
Down
- 1. It is sung with aggression. Uses little vibrato (vibration in your vocal cords.) Sometimes the main instrument you hear is the guitar
- 2. Hasn't yet achieved a mainstream audience
- 3. Consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments
- 5. Rhythmic 70’s style of music with a strong bass beat, trumpets, keyboards, electric guitars, and vocals
- 7. Style of music that often expresses feelings of sadness
- 8. A form of religious music that contains elements of Jazz and Blues
- 9. Music composed of four main elements: rapping (also known as emceeing), disk jockeying, break-dancing and graffiti
- 11. Characterized by the intensity of feeling or expressing deep emotion
- 12. It is rhythmic, and was birthed out of blues music
- 13. Music that is made by people independently from major record labels
- 15. A ballroom dance in which the dancers revolve in perpetual circles, taking one step to each beat
- 16. Soothing song played for children