General Music
Prehistoric Era
Ancient Greece
Medieval Music
Wild Card
100
Sound organized by intelligent beings (people).
What is music?
100
The era before written history.
What is the prehistoric era?
100
This civilization is known as the first to have written history.
What is Ancient Greece?
100
A huge historical event in 476 AD, causing the world to go back to the Dark Ages.
What is the fall of Rome?
100
Which genre of music has the most words per minute?
What is rap?
200
The duration of sounds and silences.
What is rhythm?
200
Cave drawings provide evidence that this existed in the prehistoric era.
What is music?
200
The Ancient Greeks believed that music held this together.
What is the universe?
200
This type of music was very popular in the Medieval Era because of the lack of technology.
What is vocal/choral music?
200
You can find this note on the piano by looking right below any group of two black keys.
What is C?
300
A field where people use music to help heal physical or mental ailments.
What is music therapy?
300
A wind instrument carved out of the bone of an animal.
What is a bone flute?
300
This philosopher used math to determine the ratio between different notes of the major scale.
Who is Pythagoras?
300
Music that only consists of one line.
What is monophony/monophonic music?
300
In 4/4 time, this note counts as one beat.
What is a quarter note?
400
The topline of a piece, normally the tune that you would remember.
What is a melody?
400
An instrument with a string and a piece of wood that oscillates, creating a low vibration.
What is a bullroarer?
400
This philosopher claimed that music could affect your character, or your ethos.
Who is Plato?
400
Music that consists of many lines/melodies at the same time.
What is polyphony/polyphonic music?
400
Any type of instrument that you hit, scrape, or shake to make noise.
What is a percussion instrument?
500
The four elements of music.
What are melody, harmony, rhythm, and form?
500
A string instrument found in prehistoric India, very similar to a violin.
What is a ravanahatha?
500
This instrument is the one of the grandfathers of the harp and the guitar.
What is the kithara?
500
A man that would travel around in Medieval times singing secular (non-sacred) love songs.
What is a troubadour?
500
I'm heavy forwards, but backwards I'm not. What am I?
What is a ton?