Instrument Families
This family includes instruments like violins, cellos, and guitars; their sound is produced mainly by vibrating strings.
String instruments
An instrument that produces sound through vibrating air is called a(n) ___________.
Aerophone
When music makes you feel happy by releasing a chemical in your brain, that chemical is commonly __________.
Dopamine
Archaeological evidence suggests musical instruments existed tens of thousands of years ago; one early instrument type often found is a _____ made from bone.
Flute
The element of music that describes how high or low a sound is is called ________.
Pitch
This family includes instruments such as trumpets and trombones; players buzz their lips to produce sound.
Brass instruments
An instrument that produces sound primarily through vibrating strings is called a(n) ________.
Chordophone
The brain system most involved in emotions and memory that is activated by music is called the ___________.
Limbic system
Ancient civilizations such as Egypt and Mesopotamia primarily used music in what types of activities?
Religious and ceremonial purposes
The element of music that refers to the speed of the beat is called ________.
Tempo
This family includes instruments like flutes, clarinets, and oboes; sound is made by the vibration of air, often using a single or double reed or no reed.
Woodwind instruments
Instruments that produces sound when their own material vibrates are called _______.
Idiophones
Listening to rhythmic music can help synchronize these body actions involved in movement and coordination: ______________.
Motor movements
In prehistoric times, music likely evolved from natural sounds, human vocalizations, and _______.
Rhythmic movements
The quality or color of a sound that distinguishes instruments is called _______.
Timbre
Name the large keyboard instrument that can act like both a stringed instrument (strings struck) and a percussion instrument in some classification discussions.
Piano
The Hornbostel-Sachs classification that groups instruments by using stretched skins to produce sound is called ___________.
Membranophone
Name one cognitive benefit often associated with studying or engaging with music.
Improved memory, attention, language skills, etc.
Around how many years ago does some evidence suggest early musical activity may have existed? Choose the closest:
1,000
5,000
20,000
40,000
40,000
When identifying whether a sound is produced by a plucked string, a blown tube, or a struck bar, you are primarily recognizing the instrument's method of ________.
Producing sound
This family includes instruments whose primary sound source is the vibration of the instrument's body (e.g. xylophone, cymbals)
Percussion instruments
Instruments that use electricity to create or amplify sound (like electric guitars and synthesizers) are classified as ___________.
Electrophones
True or False: Listening to music can reduce stress and anxiety for many people.
True
In many ancient societies, music was used for rituals, communication, and also to support what organized activity often connected to war or coordination?
Military organization/Communication across distances
Give one example of an instrument you would classify as a membranophone and one example of an idiophone.
Membranophone: drums
Idiophone: cymbals, xylophone