Group Report: Music

Question 1

Pitch

Answer 1

refers to the perceived highness or lowness of a sound

Question 2

What are the fundamental elements of music?

Answer 2

pitch, rhythm, tempo, and melody

Question 3

What is the unit of sound waves which measures the number of waves that pass through a particular place in a second?

Answer 3

Hertz (Hz)

Question 4

the number of cycles or oscillations per second in a sound wave

Answer 4

frequency

Question 5

What practical information can you gain from knowing the frequency of a sound?

Answer 5

determining which sounds are audible to humans, animals, or humans and animals

Question 6

collection of musical notes arranged in ascending or descending order according to a specific pattern of intervals

Answer 6

scale

Question 7

refers to the distance in pitch between two notes

Answer 7

interval

Question 8

musical distance between two tones that is determined by the frequency ratio of two tones

Answer 8

musical interval

Question 9

states that something is true if its opposite cannot be true

Answer 9

proof by contradiction

Question 10

a type of tuning that uses octaves and fifths but not too many of them

Answer 10

pythagorean tuning