The Basics of Music
What is the broadest and most basic definition of music provided in the guide?
Sound organized in time
What is the most basic element of art, defined as a point moving through space?
Line
Enslaved people used the "Drinking Gourd" (the Big Dipper) to find this star and head north toward freedom.
The North Star (or Polaris)
On stick charts from the Marshall Islands, what items are tied to the frame to represent specific islands?
Cowrie shells
To create his famous 1967 "sculpture" in a field of grass, Richard Long didn't use a brush or clay; he just performed what repetitive action with his feet?
By walking back and forth
This property refers to the highness or lowness of a musical sound
Pitch
If a square is a flat shape, what do we call its three-dimensional version (like a cube)?
A Form
Aboriginal Australians use ancient songs and chants for navigation that are known by this name.
The Dreaming
These charts are built using natural fibers and the tough, dried "sticks" found in the middle of what kind of leaves?
or coconut leaves/dried midribs
In her painting State Names, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith only wrote down the names of states that came from which languages?
Indigenous languages
Which instrument family includes things like flutes and horns that make sound using a vibrating column of air?
Aerophones
What are the three "primary colors" that are used to mix all other colors?
Red, blue, and yellow
Long before paper maps, people used stories and senses to create these internal "pictures" of their routes.
Mental maps
What is the name of the most basic type of stick chart, which was used only as a training tool to show how wave patterns move rather than mapping real islands?
Mattang chart
Artist Dawoud Bey made large, dark photos of forests and ponds to help people imagine what it was like to travel on which secret route to freedom?
The Underground Railroad
This is the term for a steady, regular pulse that you can tap your foot to in most songs.
Beat
In art, what is the technical term that simply refers to the "name" of a color, such as red, blue, or green?
What was the name of the secret, shifting network of safe houses that helped freedom seekers reach the North?
The Underground Railroad
Why did master navigators leave their charts at home on land instead of bringing them on the boat for the actual journey?
It was considered bad luck and they broke easily.
Richard Long made his art out in a field using the natural environment. What is the name of this "outdoor" art movement?
Land art
What Italian term is used to describe music that should be played at a "fast", "Lively" or "cheerful" speed?
Allegro
What technique makes distant mountains look fuzzy or light-colored because of fog or smoke in the air?
Aerial perspective
What is the term for the "art of mapmaking," which became a major tool for navigation and control starting in the 15th century?
Cartography
Which type of stick chart is used for long-distance travel and covers the entire chain of islands in the Marshall archipelago?
Rebbilib charts
In the painting State Names, the borders between states are not straight and sharp; instead, they look messy because the artist used what kind of paint effect?
Dripping (or runny) paint