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Where is Africa?
This location is the root of all popular music.
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What is texture?
Layers of sound.
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What is a quarter note?
This type of note receives one beat all to itself.
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What is rhythm?
This layer from African music have been used repeatedly in popular music around the world.
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What is an ostinato?
A musical pattern that repeats over and over again.
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What is an eighth note?
This type of note goes twice as fast as the quarter note and is usually seen in pairs.
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What is the drum?
This instrument comes from Africa and is used all over the world
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What is a melody/melodic pattern?
This type of ostinato has pitches and can be sung.
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What is 1,2,3,4
This is the way you count 4 beats of quarter notes.
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What are bagpipes?
This instrument heard in Faerie Stories is unique to the Celtic region.
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What is a piano?
This instrument can play a melody ostinato pattern.
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What is 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
This is the way you count 4 beats of eighth notes.
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What is Scotland?
Faerie Stories comes from this country.
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What is a rhythm pattern?
This type of ostinato pattern is unpitched and played on instruments such as the drums.
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What is 4?
When we performed our group-created ostinatos, this is the number of beats each pattern should have had.
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