Topic: Music

• Boogie-Woogie is a highly rhythmic style of blues piano.
• A typical album contains ten to twenty songs.
• A cassette tape is a small cartridge that contains both feed and take-up reels of sound sensitive tape.
• Scott Joplin (1868-1917) was an African-American ragtime pianist and best-known ragtime composer.
• A string quintet refers to the ensemble of two violins, two violas, and one violoncello. Other combinations are possible.
• Jazz is a musical style that began in the South and spread north and west.
• A compact disk is a technically advanced type of recording on which sound is digitally encoded.
• Rhythm and Blues originated during the 40s and later submerged into soul during the 60s.
• Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) was a Russian-American composer who is considered the greatest and most versatile composer of the 20^th century.
• Piano quintets are comprised of the piano and four other instruments.
• An orchestra is a musical ensemble, under the direction of a conductor, which employs four classes of instruments.
• Rock Steady was a relaxed beat style of popular music that developed in Jamaica in the 1960s.
• Stereophonic is a sound recording technique in which sound is recorded and played back to recreate the feel of a live performance.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was an Austrian composer who began composing by age 5.
• Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was a German composer who incorporated romantic impulse with classical spirit.
• Chamber music is ensemble music for small groups of instruments, with only one player to each part.
• George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) was an English composer well known for his masterpiece The Messiah.
• Country and Western music is a popular style of American music that directly descended from the folk music of the English, Scottish, and Irish settlers of the Southeastern U.S.

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