can you define these word and work cites page for them form american popular music from minstrelsy to mp3 6th edition?

Question

A cappella - Vocal singing that involves no instrumental accompaniment.

Accent - playing against it, rather than with it, is reflected in the common practice of accenting the backbeat (as,for example, when a gospel choir claps on the second and fourth beats of a steady fourbeat pulse) and in the syncopation that runs through every African American musical genre from ragtime, the blues, and jazz to soul music, funk, and hip-hop.

Acoustic/electric

Analog/digital

Arpeggio

Beat

Chord – major, minor, diminished, augmented

Coda

Downbeat

Dynamics

Families of instruments: Strings, Brass, Woodwinds, Percussion

Form

Genre

Harmony

Improvisation

Instrumentation

Interval

Key – major, minor

Measure/bar

Melody

Modulation

Note/Pitch

Offbeat

Range

Rest

Rhythm

Ritard

Rubato

SATB

Scale – major, minor, blues…

Syncopation

Tempo

Time Signature

Tonal/atonal

Vamp

Answer 1

I will try to help you understand a few of these terms.

1. Acoustic/electric/digital - An acoustic instrument relies on mechanical force to make sound. For example, in an acoustic piano when you play a key a hammer stikes a string causing a sound. With an electronic keyboard, a signal is electronically transferred from the instrument to the amplifier. Finally, a digital piano acquires its sound through a computing process. Acoustic instuments are the only ones that can make a sound simply through the efforts of a person and the instrument.
2. Arpeggio - a broken chord; the notes of a chord are played one by one rather than at the same time.
3. Coda literally means "tail." It is an ending that concludes a piece of music. During certain periods of musical history, codas were improvised rather than being written out.
4. Dynamics in music, refer to how loud or soft you play.
5. Musical genre is the style of the piece and varies from punk rock to the classical concerto form, with many, many options in between.
6. The melody of a piece is the part that can be sung - a recognizable successon of sounds that is often pleasing to the ear.