Music week 5 lesson 25

Power chord

a chord played on the guitar that consists of only a perfect fifth and octave; power chords would be important gestures in the later genres of heavy metal and punk rock

Heavy Metal

a genre of rock music that arose in the late 1960s that combines the heavy bass and drum parts and riff-based structures of hard rock with lyrical themes that tend to focus on dark, sinister topics such as the occult, death, and witchcraft

Reverse echo

a production technique claimed to have been invented by Jimmy Page in which a recorded echo is played backwards, and the reverse echo is placed before the sound it is supposed to be echoing

Recorder

end-blown wooden instrument popular during the Renaissance period that was also used by Led Zeppelin on the song "Stairway to Heaven"

Arena rock

music, concert series, or tours that are suited to be performed in large venue arenas

Album-oriented rock

or AOR, is music that was conceived to be heard in the context of an entire album, not as an isolated single

Tri-tone

the interval of an augmented fourth or a diminished (or flatted) fifth (for example, the distance between C and F-sharp) that has been used throughout music history to evoke the sinister