| A | B |
|---|
| Culture | Customs, ideas, taste, and beliefs acquired from a person's background |
| Jazz | A popular style of music that developed in America during the late 1800s and early 1900s |
| Musical Style | The distinct manner or character of musical expression |
| Perceptive Listening | The ability to discern musical characteristics and describe them |
| Timbre | The quality of sound |
| Peking Opera | A Chinese musical art form that combines instruments |
| Empathy | The ability to look at the world from another person's perspective |
| Accent | The emphasis placed on a beat |
| Improvisation | Spontaneous musical invention |
| Meter | A rhythmic measure of a certain number of beats |
| Rhythm | The way music paces itself and moves through time |
| Tempo | The pace with which the music moves |
| Reggae | Jamaican dance music that mixes African and Caribbean rhythms |
| Samba | An Afro-Brazillian dance that is quite fast and jazzy |
| Tango | A Latin-American dance performed at a moderately slow pace |
| Ethnomusicologist | Professionals who study the music of different culture groups |
