Active Listening
This could be defined as sound in time.
What is music?
This music composition technique involves using manipulated recorded sounds as its source material.
What is Musique Concrete?
This should look like music sounds.
What is a music map?
The "Duck Walk" was this Rock and Roller's signature dance move.
Who is Chuck Berry?
This is the most iconic and important instrument of the Rock and Roll style.
What is the electric guitar?
This is what the brain does to keep us from being overloaded by audio input.
What is fiiltering?
This open source software can be used to edit audio.
What is Audacity?
This kind of music map shows mainly the melody of a song.
What is a foreground map?
This musical style was characterized by lyrics about death and hardship.
What are the blues?
This musical style was a result of a Northern artists recording Country Blues.
What is R&B?
This song was written by Paul Simon in 1987.
What is Under African Skies?
Early Musique Concrete used this recording medium.
What is magnetic tape?
This kind of music map shows mainly the accompanimental instruments and elements of a song.
What is a background map?
This musical style was popular in the northern United States in the 20s and 30s.
What is Big Band?
Original records could hold this much music on each side.
What is 3-4 minutes?
This composer appeared on the TV game show "I've Got a Secret" in 1960.
Who is John Cage?
This technique was achieved by cutting a segment of tape, taping the ends together, and playing it back.
What is looping?
This is the Spanish word for "map".
What is mapa?
This global conflict resulted in smaller band sizes in the United States.
What is World War Two?
Guitar makers added steel strings and made larger bodies in an attempt to do this.
What is make them louder?
"AABB" is an example of this musical term.
What is form?
The theme song from this British TV show was the first to use Musique Concrete techniques.
What is Dr. Who?
These two states each share borders with eight states, more than any other state in the US.
What are Tennessee and Missouri?
This was the first commercially successful electric guitar.
What is the Rickenbacker Frying Pan?
These rock and rollers both met with US President Richard Nixon.
Who are Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash?