| Elements of Music | Early Pop/Jazz/Blues | Country Music | Rock and Roll/Soul | 80s/90s Music |
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What is melody?
The tune of the music, the part you whistle or hum
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What is New Orleans?
The birthplace of Jazz
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What is Nashville?
Country Music City, USA
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What is disco?
Dance music craze of the 1970s
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What is 8/1/81
The date MTV began
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What is harmony?
Two or more notes being played at one time
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What is swing?
The most popular era for Jazz
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What is yodeling?
The technique of flipping quickly from chest voice (low) to head voice (high)
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What is Motown?
Record company which became the most successful soul factory in the 1960s
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What is alternative rock?
This began as garage bands and underground groups.
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What are dynamics?
The loudness or softness of the music
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What is improvisation?
The spontaneous creation of a performer
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What is the Grand Ole Opry?
This began as a radio show; created by George D. Hay
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What is soul?
A gospel form of Black Rock
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What is techno music?
This began in Detroit, MI in the 1980s
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What is form?
The outline or structure of the music
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What is Tin Pan Alley?
The song publishing neighborhood in NY/popular music establishment
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What is the banjo?
The only indigenous African instrument to survive in the US
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What is Punk?
A spin-off of heavy metal, inending to be anti-everything
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What is technology?
Advancements in this have allowed for better sound and music to spread to a wider audience
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What is rhythm?
A series of long and short notes and rests
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What is strophic?
One melody repeated over and over with changing verses
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What is Bluegrass
The most virtuosic of country styles
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What is fm radio?
The vehicle for longer improvisational songs of the 1960s
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What is world music?
Music that is traditional, popular or art bus has ethnic or international aspects to it
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