LAM FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
timbre - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The quality of the sound of an instrument. This helps distinguish
different instruments/ voices.
range - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The distance between the lowest and highest note an instrument can
play. A particular section of an instrument's range is called a register.
articulation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The different lengths and styles of attack. For example, staccato
which is a shot note and legato which is smooth connected notes.
blues - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Secular folk music created by African Americans during the 20th century.
Influenced jazz, rock, R&B, country music.
form - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The structure of a piece of music. In jazz its often a repeated cycles of
chord changes.
swing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An un-even rhythm. A rhythmic framework based on triples rather than
doubles.
backbeat - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The backbone of a lot of popular music. 4/4 measure featuring a
strong accent on beat's 2and 4.
Syncopation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Emphasis on the off beats (weak beats). Defying the typical
rhythmic structure of a piece
genre - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a category of peice of music characterized by similarities in form, style, or
subject matter. To provide better organizing for music.
Origins (Jazz) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- New Orleans
- early 1900's
timbre - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The quality of the sound of an instrument. This helps distinguish
different instruments/ voices.
range - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The distance between the lowest and highest note an instrument can
play. A particular section of an instrument's range is called a register.
articulation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The different lengths and styles of attack. For example, staccato
which is a shot note and legato which is smooth connected notes.
blues - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Secular folk music created by African Americans during the 20th century.
Influenced jazz, rock, R&B, country music.
form - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The structure of a piece of music. In jazz its often a repeated cycles of
chord changes.
swing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An un-even rhythm. A rhythmic framework based on triples rather than
doubles.
backbeat - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The backbone of a lot of popular music. 4/4 measure featuring a
strong accent on beat's 2and 4.
Syncopation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Emphasis on the off beats (weak beats). Defying the typical
rhythmic structure of a piece
genre - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a category of peice of music characterized by similarities in form, style, or
subject matter. To provide better organizing for music.
Origins (Jazz) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- New Orleans
- early 1900's
