Music Theory
A key signature with 7 flats.
What is Cb Major?
This device is used to record sound into a computer using a diaphragm and electrical signal.
What is a microphone?
Before digital recording, music was captured using this physical format made of grooves.
What is a vinyl record?
The first device used to record and reproduce sound, using a wax cylinder to create noise.
What is a Phonograph?
The order of flats
What is BEADGCF
This digital file format compresses audio to save space and is commonly used for streaming music.
(We save our garageband files as this!)
What is an MP3?
This technology allowed musicians to record multiple tracks separately.
What is multitrack recording?
An early mechanical device used to reproduce sound from flat discs.
What is a gramophone?
A chord with a major 3rd and perfect 5th.
What is a major chord?
Electronic devices that send digital messages (like notes) in a common language to devices like computers and DAWS.
What is a MIDI Instrument?
This type of recording uses numbers and computers to store sound.
What is digital recording?
A way to record sound by converting sound into electrical signals, then magnetic patterns on a coated plastic tape, capturing the sound's waveform.
What is a tape recorder?
An interval between F and Bb
What is a perfect 4th?
This type of software, such as GarageBand or Bandlab, is used to record, edit, and mix music.
What is a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)?
This early electronic instrument is played without touching it.
What is a theremin?
An audio device that uses a laser to read microscopic bumps that create music.
What is a CD?
An interval between C and A#
What is an augmented 6th?
A device that is used to read and display waveforms.
What is an Oscillator?
This technique uses short pieces of existing recordings in new songs.
What is sampling?
Before digital recording, what medium of recording was the most popular?
What is Analog?