BALKAN BEATS Take This Short Quiz to Test Your Knowledge on Music from the Balkins

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STUDENT QUIZ BALKAN BEATS Take this short quiz to test your knowledge on music from the Balkins.

1. How many countries can you name on the Balkan Peninsula?

2. What aspects of Balkan music make it so distinctive?

3. What does the word “Balkan” mean in Turkish?

4. When were many traditional Balkan instruments first introduced?

5. How many different types of bagpipes are there? What are they called?

6. What types of instruments are characteristic of Balkan folk music?

7. What is the name of Bulgaria’s most well-known choir?

8. What country was Folk Rap founded in?

9. What is the name of one of the most popular American brass/jazz band that performs Balkan music in NYC?

10. Who is Elitni Odredi?

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ARRANGING 101: ELEMENTS Take this short quiz to test your knowledge on arranging music.

1. What is the first crucial element necessary to start the process of arranging?

2. What is orchestration?

3. What was the change in time signature between figures B and C?

4. What makes figure C the most interesting to listen to?

5. How many ways are there to arrange the song, “Happy Birthday”?

6. What is composition?

7. Who is Bela Bartok?

8. What are his arrangements known for?

9. What is the “arranger” responsible for?

10. What does Waves say is the most important thing for an arranger to consider?

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CLEAN BANDIT Take this quick quiz to test your knowledge on Clean Bandit.

1. What is the name of Clean Bandit’s most recent album?

2. What occurs in the music video to their song, “Symphony”?

3. What genre is Clean Bandit’s music?

4. Where did Grace Chatto, Neil Amin-Smith and Jack and Luke Patterson attend undergradu- ate school?

5. Which role in the band is filled in each Clean Bandit song by a new celebrity singer?

6. What year was their first single, “A+E” released?

7. What English singer/songwriter was featured on their single, “Rather Be”?

7. Which group member left the band in 2016?

8. Which single won Clean Bandit their first GRAMMY Award?

10. When was the single, “Symphony,” first released?

BALKAN BEATS 1. Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Croatia, Montenegro, STUDENT Greece, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia 2. The asymmetrical meter and complex rhythms 3. Sharp Mountains QUIZ 4. During the Ottoman empire 5. Two, the gaida and kaba gaida ANSWERS 6. Bagpipes, accordian, fiddle, tarambuka drum, kaval 7. The Bulgarian StateTelevision Female Vocal Choir 8. Serbia January 9. Slavic Soul Party 2019 10. A folk and hip-hop male duo formed in 2005

ARRANGING 101: ELEMENTS 1. Melody 2.The process of deciding what instruments are going to play which notes 3. The time signature changed from three to four beats per measure 4. Many different instruments, unique rhythms, it’s “jazzy,” etc. 5.You can arrange any song in limitless ways 6. The writing and introduction of a completely original part of a song 7. A 20th century Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist 8. He is known for taking old Hungarian folk melodies and arranging them for classical orchestras 9. The structural integrity, flow, balance, development and overall sound of the song 10. How the song moves

CLEAN BANDIT 1. What is Love? 2. The video features footage of a tragic love story, while Zara Larsson sings in front of a symphony orchestra 3. Classical/EDM Crossover 4. Jesus College at the University of Cambridge 5. Singer 6. 2012 7. Jess Glynne 8. Neil Amin-Smith 9. Rather Be 10. 2017