music and performance

the group of people together in one place to watch or listen to a play, film, someone speaking

• spectacle

• audience

• performers

• listeners

someone who directs the performance of musicians or a piece of music

• director

• musician

• singer

• conductor

a large group of musicians who play many different instruments together

• band

• performance

• orchestra

• music group

a type of modern music with a rhythm in which the strong notes are usually not on the beat and which is usually improvised

• jazz

• rock

• pop

• reggae

a tube-shaped musical instrument with a hole that you blow across at one end while holding the tube out horizontally to one side of you

• trumpet

• saxophone

• flute

• xylophone

the action of entertaining other people by dancing, singing, acting or playing music

• opera

• performance

• theater

• drama

a band in which most of the musical instruments are made of a bright yellow metal made from copper and zinc

• copper band

• boyband

• metal band

• brass band

a musical play in which most of the words are sung, or plays and music of this type

• opera

• pantomime

• drama

• song

the place where a public event or meeting happens

• town hall

• setting

• office

• venue

modern music and songs that are written in a style similar to that of traditional music

• traditional

• contemporary

• folk

• classical