music 1-50

Question 1

sound organized in time

Answer 1

music

Question 2

the highness or lowness of a sound

Answer 2

pitch

Question 3

orchestral musicians in the US tune to this note

Answer 3

A-440

Question 4

The term for scholars who study the music of other cultures

Answer 4

ethnomusicologists

Question 5

Curt Sachs and Erich von Hornbostel created how many groups of instruments?

Answer 5

4

Question 6

What texture has two or more melodic lines unfold simultaneously

Answer 6

polyphonic

Question 7

What is the art of taking an existing piece of music and giving instructions as to what each individual performer should play

Answer 7

arranging

Question 8

The combination of instruments involved in a work of music

Answer 8

instrumentation

Question 9

Another expressive factor expressing the sound of a piece is called

Answer 9

articulation

Question 10

The primary way tension is created through harmonic _______.

Answer 10

Dissonance

Question 11

what is the broadcast definition of music?

Answer 11

sound organized in time

Question 12

improvisation

Answer 12

simultaneous composition and performance

Question 13

how does raising the amplitude of a sound wave affect the sound?

Answer 13

sound becomes louder

Question 14

a melody that moves primarily in half steps or whole steps conjunct melody

Answer 14

conjunct melody

Question 15

Between which TWO pairs of notes on the keyboard are there no black keys?

Answer 15

B to C and E to F

Question 16

From which key on the keyboard would a natural minor scale consisting only of white keys begin?

Answer 16

A

Question 17

transpose

Answer 17

to move a piece of music from one key to another

Question 18

What aspect of a melody must remain unchanged when it is transposed to another key?

Answer 18

the interval relationships between the notes

Question 19

contour

Answer 19

the overall shape or direction of a melody

Question 20

how does lowering the frequency of a sound wave affect the sound

Answer 20

pitch becomes lower

Question 21

what is the frequency of A above middle C, the note to which orchestral musicians tune their instruments

Answer 21

440 Hz

Question 22

chordophones

Answer 22

instruments that use vibrating strings to produce sound

Question 23

idiophones

Answer 23

instruments whose bodies vibrate to produce sound

Question 24

aerophones

Answer 24

instruments that use a vibrating column of air to produce

Question 25

membranophones

Answer 25

instruments that use a vibrating column of air to produce sound

Question 26

electrophones

Answer 26

instruments that use an oscillator to produce sounds

Question 27

what instrument family includes the flute, bassoon, and saxophone

Answer 27

woodwinds

Question 28

what instrument family includes the tuba, french horn, and bugle

Answer 28

brass

Question 29

what are five examples of stringed instruments

Answer 29

violon, viola, cello, doublebass, and guitar

Question 30

what instruments family includes the marimba, timpani, and vibraphone?

Answer 30

percussion

Question 31

what are four examples of keyboard instruments

Answer 31

piano, harpsichord, organ, and celesta

Question 32

pitch

Answer 32

the higness or lowness of a sound

Question 33

what interval is produced by halving the length of a string on a guitar

Answer 33

octave

Question 34

where is middle c located on the piano keyboard

Answer 34

roughly equidistant from either end

Question 35

overtones

Answer 35

weaker frequencies that color the sound of a note

Question 36

into how many equal parts does equal temperament divide the octave

Answer 36

12

Question 37

chromatic scale

Answer 37

the 12 pitches of the octave, played in ascending order

Question 38

what does a sharp symbol indicate

Answer 38

the note should be raised

Question 39

what does a flat symbol indicate?

Answer 39

the note should be lowered

Question 40

what are the notes g# and Ab, which are identical in pitch referred to as?

Answer 40

enharmonic

Question 41

how many pitches does a diatonic scale contain

Answer 41

seven

Question 42

why is the seventh pitch in a scale called the leading tone

Answer 42

it begs to resolve upward to the tonic pitch

Question 43

what is the role of the tonic pitch

Answer 43

acts as a point or repose and completion

Question 44

dominant pitch

Answer 44

the fifth scale degree

Question 45

performance practice

Answer 45

a study of how music actually sounded when it was written

Question 46

interval

Answer 46

the distance between two pitches

Question 47

what unit of measurement is used to describe an interval

Answer 47

half step or semitone

Question 48

What is the highest note of a triad known as?

Answer 48

the fifth

Question 49

melodic interval

Answer 49

two pitches played consecutively