| Definition | Answer |
|---|
| Short music ideas | |
| Notes used that are foreign to the key of the music | |
| Made smaller by a semitone | |
| A long note of 8 crotchet beat duration | |
| The 6 semitones not used in the first hexachord | |
| An interval larger than an octave; for example a ninth | |
| Repetitions of a sound after a set time interval, usually at a lower volume | |
| The solo instruments in a jazz ensemble | |
| Replacing one chord with another | |
| Two chords at the end of a musical phrase. The 4 types are: Perfect, Imperfect, Interrupted, Plagal. | |
| Different ways of 'spelling' the same pitch; for example, B flat and A sharp | |
| Hour glass shaped talking drum held under the arm and played with the hand | |
| Music in which notes are used that are not in the key of the piece | |
| Indian system of master-pupil teaching | |
| Fifth note of the scale or key, the strongest note after the tonic | |
| literally an ornament - 'a crushed note' played as quickly as possible before the main note | |
| A studio effect ranging from subtle swirling sounds to jet plane effects | |
| The simultaneous sounding together of two or more notes | |
| Absence of tonality / key | |
| The chord sequence in a jazz song | |
| A jazz style popular in the 1920's and 1930's in which the pieces were generally written for a large ensemble to be played in dance halls | |
| An abbreviation for accompanying | |
| Double headed drum (in several different sizes) played with sticks | |
| In a Tala, these are the independant rhythm parts that go against the main beat of the cycle creating exciting syncopations | |
| A sustained or repeated note (S) on the dominant note of the key | |
| A chord in which one of the notes has been sharpened or flattened to become a chromatic note | |
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