Music Survey Combo Final Finale
Across
- 1. an accented non-chord tone occurring on downbeats
- 5. founder of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
- 8. a set of instrumental pieces, each in the character of a dance
- 9. a melodic phrase that has a clear beginning, middle, and end
- 12. very long rest, with 4 counts
- 15. a perforated cylinder that contains 11,520 holes into which a musician plugs pins to create melodies
- 17. this instrument uses a constant stream of water to make notes
- 19. 5th degree of a tonic
- 20. 4th degree of a tonic
- 21. an old French dance perform rather slow and stately in triple meter
- 22. repeating from the beginning
- 25. performs music from Jalisco
- 28. created sheets of sound with his alto sax and played multiple at once manipulating traditional harmonic progressions.
- 32. period when Bach was from(1600-1750)
- 34. tone approached by step and left by a leap in the opposite direction
- 36. a piano player whose style consisted of energetic percussive attacks on the keys juxtaposed with periods of drawn-out silence.
- 37. period when Mozart was from(1730-1820)
- 43. an ornamental note of long or short duration that temporarily displaces, and subsequently resolves into, a main note, usually by step-wise motion
- 44. short note, with 1 count
- 45. 1st degree of a tonic
- 46. segments of time from a given number of beats
- 48. a dance in triple meter, made famous in Vienna in the late 1800s
- 50. on the piano, the dynamic is performed as soft
- 51. known for his signature raspy voice and helped to give Scat a wider audience with his recordings
- 56. a virtuoso saxophonist whose use of classical Latin and blue styles helped develop Biba.
- 57. Jamaican dance music, mixing African and Caribbean rhythms
- 58. very long note, with 4 counts
- 59. a miniature analog stylus-operated keyboard
- 60. a sitar falls into what category of instrumental timbres
- 61. tone approached by step and then continues by step in the same direction
- 63. 7th degree of a tonic
- 66. C hand position where 1st thumb, 2nd index, 3rd middle, 4th ring, 5th pinky
- 68. 2nd degree of a tonic
- 69. instrument does not play higher than Middle C
- 73. music that has numbers at the beginning
- 74. opened one of the first jazz schools in Canada, and his hymn to freedom was a major anthem of the Civil Rights Movement.
- 77. the first phrase in a musical period, which sets up a musical idea
- 78. piano is from this family of instruments
- 79. tone where you step up or down from a note and then move back to the original note
- 80. a Latin American dance perform at a moderately slow, walk-like tempo
- 81. long note, with 2 counts
- 82. when the bass staff and treble staff join together with a brace
- 83. intervals in which the notes are played separately to make a melody
Down
- 2. the gradual shifting of a repeated musical pattern out of alignment with itself over time
- 3. trombone is from this family of instruments
- 4. a musical form consisting of two distinct sections, labeled as A and B
- 6. famous traditional Mexican song
- 7. the instrument has the highest pitch
- 10. the second phrase in a musical period, which provides resolution to the antecedent phrase
- 11. a musical structure consisting of two phrases
- 13. a musical form consisting of three distinct sections, labeled as A, B, and A
- 14. wrote music for Star Wars, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Home Alone
- 16. an accented non-chord tone, meaning it occurs on a downbeat
- 18. slightly larger than a violin, this instrument has a lower and deeper sound
- 23. traditional Mexican songs
- 24. at the helm of almost every major jazz innovation in the late 20th century, creating cool jazz.
- 26. dance created by Texan Americans
- 27. famous pianist and composer who borrowed African-American folk and Creole for his compositions
- 29. intervals in which the notes are played together to make a harmony
- 30. on the piano, the dynamic is performed moderately loud
- 31. a string technique involving detached notes played with a bouncing bow(when playing violin)
- 32. made hits such as “Embraceable You” and “I’ll Be Seeing You”, and used her raspy, somewhat fragile voice to showcase a depth of emotion in her music.
- 33. a strenuous style of classical dance created in France in the 16th century
- 35. a pianist, bandleader, and composer penned many famous standards like “Cottontail”, and elevated jazz to a bonafide art form.
- 38. a short musical fragment that forms the basis of a melody or larger musical work
- 39. a groundbreaking bebop performer and master improviser as well as a pioneer of Afro-Cuban and Latin music
- 40. lines that divide the music into those measures
- 41. two beaters are used to strike the strings and create notes for this instrument
- 42. a piston-valve brass instrument with a bore that is mostly conical
- 44. short rest, with 1 count
- 47. instruments that produce sound by a vibrating column of air
- 48. oboe is from this family of instruments
- 49. a musical form consisting of the first two A sections typically featuring the same melody and lyrics, B section introduces a contrasting melody and lyrics, and final A section restates the melody and lyrics from the first two A sections
- 52. a musical form consisting of repeated verses, with the same music accompanying each verse
- 53. a form of vocal improvisation that became a characteristic that many jazz singers adopted
- 54. C hand position where 5th pinky, 4th ring, 3rd middle, 2nd index, 1st thumb
- 55. 3rd degree of a tonic
- 59. 6th degree of a tonic
- 62. 8th degree of a tonic
- 64. infused popular American music with jazz sensibilities, making hits such as “Straighten Up and Fly Right”
- 65. instruction for musicians playing stringed instruments(when playing violin)
- 67. an instrument with a double-reed mouthpiece, a slender tubular body, and holes stopped by keys
- 70. this instrument is generally played by extending and shortening the slide
- 71. viola is from this family of instruments
- 72. period when the voice was instrumental(11-14th century)
- 75. the combining of notes into patterns
- 76. an Afro-Brazilian dance that is quite fast and jazzy