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2. WHAT IS MUSIC
• vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in
such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony,
and expression of emotion. "couples were dancing to
the music"
• the written or printed signs representing vocal or
instrumental sound
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3. Country music
jazz
rock
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4. COUNTRY MUSIC
a form of popular music originating in the rural
southern US. It is traditionally a mixture of ballads and
dance tunes played characteristically on
fiddle, guitar, steel guitar, drums, and keyboard .
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5. JAZZ
a music genre that originated at the beginning of the
20th century, arguably earlier, within the AfricanAmerican communities of the Southern United States
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6. ROCK
a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in
the United States during the late 1940s and early
1950s, primarily from a combination of AfricanAmerican genres such as blues, jump blues, jazz, and
gospel music, together with Western swing and country
music
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7. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
GUITAR
a stringed musical instrument with a fretted
fingerboard, typically incurved sides, and six
or twelve strings, played by plucking or
strumming with the fingers or a plectrum.
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8. PIANO
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a large keyboard
musical instrument
with a wooden case
enclosing a
soundboard and
metal strings, which
are struck by
hammers when the
keys are depressed.
The strings'
vibration is stopped
by dampers when
the keys are
released, and it can
be regulated for
length and volume
by two or three
pedals.

9. DRUMS
percussion instrument
sounded by being struck with
sticks or the hands, typically
cylindrical, barrel-shaped, or
bowl-shaped with a taut
membrane over one or both
ends.
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10. MUSIC IN
NATURE
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