This is a unit of musical time, like a heartbeat

This word means "two" in music

This musical troupe uses "found items" to create an interesting visual and sonic experience

This African-American is arguably the best-known ragtime composer of all time

All instruments of voices playing the same pitch

The aural aspect of music in which a certain number of beats are grouped together

Rimsky-Korsakov used this technique in his piece, "Procession of Nobles"

The way music paces itself and moves through time

This group takes very simple musical ideas and makes them sound richly complex by subdividing beats

Very loud

The emphasis placed on a musical sound

Ms. Moore clapped the rhythm to "Happy Birthday" to demonstrate this concept

Spontaneous musical invention

An "ostinato" is this

Marked by beats grouped into sets of 2

This musician must have good coordination and be able to play several rhythms with different parts of his or her body simultaneously

Melodic Rhythm was displayed in this composer's "Symphony No.7"

Iron bells are found in the music of these people from Cameroon

Ragtime was popular during the early part of this century

Very soft

A division of beats into defined groups separated by a bar line

Early in his life, Beethoven began to lose this ability

This involves the deliberate shift of accents so that it conflicts with the steady beat. It creates a feeling of imbalance, a teasing and thwarting of the steady beat

The ____________ musician uses improvisation heavily

A combination of two or more contrasting rhythmic patterns played at the same time