Find The Musical Terms

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.

1.
r t i m e
Music with a syncopated melody
2.
h a p
A small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes
3.
a s n t i
4.
j a z
Style of music with improvisation, born in New Orleans
5.
c e l
A large stringed instrument
6.
i h a e j a k s n
United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful
7.
r e g e
Popular music originating in the West Indies
8.
f t e
A groove or furrow in cloth etc
9.
c i a
10.
r o a r o l l
11.
v o i n
A four-stringed instrument usually played with a bow.
12.
o m a r i
13.
r a b
A combination of blues ___ jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians
14.
b a j
A stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body
15.
b e y o c
16.
d u m
A musical percussion instrument
17.
m s y l i o t
18.
h p h o
Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to
19.
u t a r
A stringed instrument usually having six strings
20.
e e p a m a n
21.
o s p l
Folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United
22.
a r a c s
23.
k o n
24.
c s s i c l
Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest