NST Energy

Question 1

What does the word PLUCK mean?

Answer 1

When we stretch and let go, the strings on an instrument create sounds.

Question 2

What is a percussion instrument?

Answer 2

A musical instrument that you play by hitting, shaking or scraping.

Question 3

What is a string instrument

Answer 3

A musical instrument that produces sound from string.

Question 4

What is a wind instrument?

Answer 4

A musical instrument you play by blowing wind into it.

Question 5

What does the word vibrate mean?

Answer 5

To move to and fro with small, fast movements.

Question 6

What does the word: unique mean?

Answer 6

Different in its own, special way.

Question 7

What does sinew mean?

Answer 7

A thick band of strong material in your body that joins a bone to a muscle.

Question 8

How do I play a tambourine?

Answer 8

Shake or tap it.

Question 9

How do I play a guitar?

Answer 9

Pluck or strum the strings

Question 10

How do I play a drum?

Answer 10

Hit it with a stick/ hand

Question 11

Name three main types of instruments

Answer 11

Percussion, String and Wind instruments

Question 12

What is a percussion instrument?

Answer 12

Instrument that we shake, scrape or hit.

Question 13

Give an example of a percussion instrument
:

Answer 13

Drum or tambourine

Question 14

What is a string instrument?

Answer 14

We play it by plucking or rubbing the strings

Question 15

Give an example of a string instrument:

Answer 15

Guitar or violin

Question 16

What is a wind instrument?

Answer 16

An instrument that we blow air through

Question 17

Give an example of a wind instrument

Answer 17

Penny whistle or tuba

Question 18

What type of instrument is a drum?

Answer 18

Percussion

Question 19

What type of instrument is a banjo?

Answer 19

String

Question 20

What type of instrument is a saxophone?

Answer 20

Wind

Question 21

What type of instrument is a penny whistle?

Answer 21

Wind

Question 22

What type of instrument is a harp?

Answer 22

String

Question 23

How do vibrations make music?

Answer 23

When so,etching vibrates it shakes very quickly with small forward and backward movements.
An input of movement energy (blowing, hitting, plucking or rubbing) starts the vibrations.
The vibrations move out from the instrument through the air and we hear them as sounds.

Question 24

What is indigenous African music?

Answer 24

Designed, made and used in Africa

Question 25

List three INDIGENOUS AFRICAN instruments

Answer 25

Mbila mutondo from Venda (marimba)
Bow (made from sticks/sinews)
Horns (often used to call people to the Kraal)

Question 26

What is the musical instrument input of energy?

Answer 26

Hitting,shaking,plucking or rubbing

Question 27

What is the output of energy of a musical instrument?

Answer 27

Sound is the main output of energy of all musical instruments

Question 28

Tell me a flow diagram to show what happens when the strings of a guitar are plucked:

Answer 28

Remember to do arrows in the test!
1. Input of energy: fingers move to pluck the strings of the guitar
2. System: musical instrument (guitar)
3. Output of energy: guitar produces a sound we can hear

Question 29

Tell me the flow diagram for a drum:

Answer 29

Remember arrows in the test!
1. Input of energy: a drum has a thin membrane or skin that is stretched tightly over the opening of something hollow. The input is when the drummer beats the membrane.
2. System: musical instrument (drum)
3. Output of energy: the membrane vibrated and makes the sound we hear.