20 Terms
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General music
heptatonic scale
Music; General music
Seven-note scale; in non-Western musics, often fashioned from a different combination of intervals than major and minor scales.
soft rock
Music; General music
Lyrical, gentle rock style that evolved around 1960 in response to hard-driving rock and roll.
concert band
Music; General music
Instrumental ensemble ranging from forty to eighty members or more, consisting of wind and percussion instruments. Also wind ensemble.
panpipe
Music; General music
Wind instrument consisting of a series of small vertical tubes or pipes of differing length; sound is produced by blowing across the top.
absolute music
Music; General music
Music that has no literary, dramatic, or pictorial program. Also pure music.
