Origins & Purpose
Name one ancient instrument in the unit that early humans played about 30,000 years ago.
What is a bone flute?
What everyday activity did the unit say music helped early humans keep pace with while working?
What is work songs//rhythmic music to keep pace during physical labor?
This is the part of the ear first collects sound before it travels to the eardrum.
What is the outer ear?
This is someone who writes songs for the radio.
What is a songwriter?
Some ancient cultures believed music came from the gods. True or False
What is true?
Name two roles of music listed in the unit (pick any two).
What is communication, entertainment, social bonds, coordinating work, ritual, healing
This tiny inner-ear organ sends sound information to the brain.
What is the cochlea?
This is a person whose job is to edit, balance and clean up recording in a studio.
What is a sound technician or audio engineer?
Give one adaptive reason scientists think music evolved.
What is communication, strengthen social bonds, coordinating work, ritual/religion, entertainment.
This is how music can strengthen social bonds using a classroom as an example.
What is singing together at a concert or singing a class song builds shared experience and connection.
This kind of sound tends to stimulate the brain's reward centers: consonant or dissonant
What is consonant?
This is a modern technology that has changed how we hear or create music.
What is streaming or a synthesizer?
Explain in one sentence how music can help people communicate when words are not enough.
Music can express emotions and meanings that words cannot - like using a melody to comfort people when it's hard to speak?
This explains how music has been used to entertain and help people be more productive.
What is rhythms helping early people to keep pace on tasks; today, helping with studying and chores feel more enjoyable and productive?
These are two benefits for children who study an instrument for three or more years.
What are improved listening skills, better fine motor skills, increased vocabulary,. stronger reasoning ability., higher test performance?
This is legal protection automatically applied to a song as soon as it is written down or recorded.
What is a copyright?
Describe one historical example from the unit of music being used for protest or social change.
What is a protest song?
This describes how music can heal or help a community after a tragic event.
What is a community concert to bring healing and togetherness?
This explains how music can reduce stress hormones and help someone feel calmer.
What is music with calming rhythms and melodies can lower cortisol and adrenaline, reducing stress and helping people feel more relaxed and focused?
Daily double
Choose a career from the unit and describe the main duty of that career.
composer, conductor, studio musician, songwriter, talent agent, sound technician, music teacher, music therapist
composer, co