3rd Exam

• Classical Music - This is a serious or conventional music following long-established principles.
• Country Music - Music that developed from Southern American folk and western cowboy music in the rural regions of the Southern United States in the 1920s.
• Electronic Music - The character and quality of music is synthetic, the music is created and manipulated by electronics instead of performance by acoustic instruments.
• Jazz - a combination of European and African music traditions. Invented at the beginning of the 20th Century by African Americans.
• Latin Music - Language, the cultural background of the artist, geography and music style is the main elements that define this music.
• Pop Music - is identified as the hits most often played on radio, that which attracts the largest audiences, sells the most copies, and the musical styles that is displayed by the biggest audience therefore it is really an amalgam of whatever is popular at any given moment and doesn't represent any specific genre.
• Metal - characteristic of powerful and loud bass drums and aggressive electric guitars. It was developed in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s and also in the United States. The words are usually about provocative and controversial themes.
• Punk - is a type of Rock Music Genre based on garage rock protopunk music. Bands made hard-edged songs that were short, political, anti-establishment with stripped down instrumentation.
• Rap Music - originated among African-Americans inner city street culture in the 1970s. It is generally not sung. the words are spoken with a backdrop of music borrowed from soul, funk and rock pieces
• Reggae - arose form Jamaica in the late 1960s. It refers to a style that developed from Ska and Rock Steady.
• Rhythm and Blues (R&B) - This is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.
• Rock Music - a popular music that evolved from rock and roll and pop music during the mid and late 1960s.
• Woodwind Instruments - are basically tube pierced with holes. They produce sound through vibration of the air column inside the tube. Some of it have reeds, a thin piece of cane that vibrates when blown across.
• Piccolo - Highest pitched; mimics sound of bird; Smallest of family
• Flute - no reed
• Clarinet - Single Reed; Expressive tone
• Oboe - double reed; sad tone
• Bassoon - double reed; lowest pitched
• String Instruments - Comprises the largest section of the orchestra. Crafted by carving, shaping and gluing wood pieces together; no nails or screws are used. Each instruments has four strings, the vibration of which makes the instrument sound. Come in many sizes: the larger the instrument, the lower the sound, the smaller the instrument, the higher the sound. Sound is made by playing their strings two ways; plucking or bowing.
• Violin - smallest member of family of the string instruments
• viola - slightly larger than violin with a much warmer and lower tone
• Cello - bass member of family; musician must sit to play the instrument
• Brass instruments - Metallic loops of tubing, in different lengths, with a mouthpiece at one end and a bell shape at the other. The longer the length of tubing, the lower the sound. Sound is produced by buzzing with the lips while blowing in the mouthpiece. Most have valves that are pressed and released to change and produce different tones.
• Percussion Instruments - Made of naturally resonant materials like skin, wood or metal. Sound is produced when the instrument is struck. The role of this section is to provide rhythm and character to the orchestra. These instruments range from simple wooden blocks to tuned instruments.
• Dance - it is an expression in rhythmic movement of an intensified sense of life. It is a visual and auditory feast of meanings, costumes, props, and music.
• Communal Dance - Primitive tribal cultures invented dance. Themes include, magic, strategy, method, survival, and way of life.
• Ritual Dance - It celebrates mythology rather than magic.
• Folk Dance - A dance developed that reflects the lives of people from certain country or region.
• Social Dance - This is a dance with gay and lively characters. the dancers typically wear bulky fashions in clothes.
• Elements of Dance: Body - is the basic component of dance. How it initiates movement and the inner self-perceptions, emotions, imaginations, thoughts, and intentions.
• Elements of Dance: Theme - This is an important element and the message conveyed by the dance.
• Elements of Dance: Design - This is the plan or organization of movement in time and space.
• Elements of Dance: Elements of Movement - It is the medium of dance.
• Elements of Dance: Elements of Movement

  Space - Area or environment
• Elements of Dance: Elements of Movement

  
  

  Time - It determines the rhythm, tempo, and duration of movements
• Elements of Dance: Elements of Movement

  Duration - length of time
• Elements of Dance: Elements of Movement

  Force - energy
• Elements of Dance: Elements of Movement

  Dynamics - Force of Movement
• Elements of Dance: Techniques - The skill in executing movement
• Elements of Dance: Music - motivates the movement of the dancers; melodic and harmonious accompaniment background.