2. Chapter Chapter 2
1.What is a steady, recurring pulse called?
2.What is a question and answer pattern in which a group responds to a leader?
3. What is the highness or lowness of sound determined by its vibration?
4. What is an intentionally organized succession of musical tones called?
5. Who is a contemporary trumpeter from a musical family?
6. Johann Sebastian Bach was famous for playing and improving on which instrument?
7. True or False: Once a person establishes musical preferences it never changes
8. Who fused West African music with American styles of rhythm and blues, funk, and jazz ?
9. What is the term for the structure and design of a composition, incorporating repetition, contrast, unity, and variety?
10. Instruments that produce music by vibrating a column of air are called ____________.
11. The xylophone is an example of what type of instrument classification?
12. Which characteristics are commonly associated with classical music?
13. What is another term for folk music?
14. What term is the distinct tonal quality of an instrument or voice?
15. Which genre of music began in Detroit, Michigan?
16. Define rhythm: ___________

3. Chapter 3 Chapter 4 1. Perceptive listening means: ________
2. A sequence of tones arranged in rising pitches _______
3. What is the definition of a music ensemble?
4. What are characteristics of effective musical critiques?
5. Virtuoso is another word for:
6. Mariachi bands play a style of music from what country?
7. Luciana Pavarotti sings what voice part? (tenor or bass?)
8. What is the distance in pitch between two tones called?
1. A unit of musical times is called a ______________
2. What is a “found instrument”?
3. What are characteristics of improvistation?
4. What word means deliberate shifts of the accent so that I goes against the steady beat?
5. What is a repeated musical figure called?
6. The Bamileke people perform highly rhythm music to accompany their _________ dance.

4. Chapter 5
Chapter 6
1. What word designates a dance music created by Mexicans in Texas? ________
2. ___________ refers to a dance in which foot movements produce audible rhythms emphasized by small metal plates on the soles of the dancer’s shoes.
3. A twenties-century musical form that radically changed the course of popular music was: ______
4. The Nutcracker is an example of _______
5. The music for the Rite of Spring was composed by _________
6. Riverdance created a renewed interest in ______
7. A dance that features the breakaway, when dance partners separate to improvise movement before coming back together, is called ________
8. What new profession did disco create?
9. Soprano refers to which range of the female voice (low, medium, high)
10. The lowest male voice classification is called _______.
11. What term refers to the capacity to think sound?
12. What is singing a melody without accompaniment or harmony called?
13. What term is used to describe a genre of African American music that often expresses frustration, sadness, or longing?

5. Chapter 7
1. An extended work for orchestra with several contrasting movements is called a __________.
2. What is a musical form in which a melodic idea is stated and then varied successive statements?
3. What term refers to a musician who reworks existing musical material?
4. Melodies are almost always built on a _______.
5. The director of an orchestra, choir, or other performing group is called a __________.
6. True or False: the root of a chord refers to the tone on which the chord is build (I’ll just tell you this one, it is TRUE).
7. An aspect of music that control’s the listener’s sense of how much time is passed is called ______ time.