A purely psychological construct, related both to the actual frequency of a particular tone and to its relative position in the musical scale.
What is Pitch?
100
a subset of the theoretically infinite number of pitches
What is A Scale?
100
The sky is this color.
What is Blue?
100
The unit of measurement, cycles per second, is often called Hertz (abrv. Hz) after Heinrich Hertz, the German theoretical physicist who was the first to do this.
What is Transmit Radio Waves?
100
The question this whole section is about is this.
What is "If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?"
200
The durations of the series of notes, and to the way that they group together in units.
What is Rhythm?
200
The note names in Western music run from A to G, or in an alternative system coined by what theatrical performance, Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do.
What is The Sound of Music?
200
In Spanish, hello is this word.
What is Hola?
200
These vibrate at a relatively slow rate, while shorter, thinner strings vibrate at a higher rate.
What is Longer, Thicker Strings?
200
The answer to that question is this.
What is No?
300
the overall shape of a melody, taking into account only the pattern of whether a note goes up or down, not the amount of which it goes up or down.
What is Contour?
300
one of the notes we call A has a frequency of 110 Hertz. The note with 220 Hertz is also called A, as is a note with this many Hertz.
What is 440?
300
In "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee in the beginning, Jem is dared to touch this man's house.
What is Boo Radley?
300
The vibrating molecules are what reach these, causing them to wiggle up and down and sending that information to our brain to figure out what made the eardrum move that way.
What is Eardrums?
300
Sound is this created by the brain in response to vibrating molecules.
What is A Mental Image?
400
The perception of how distant the source is from us in combination with how large a room or hall the music is in; often referred to as “echo,” it is the quality that distinguishes the spaciousness of singing in a large concert hall from the sound of you singing in your shower.
What is Reverberation?
400
the first two notes of what song from the movie The Wizard of Oz make an octave.
What is Over the Rainbow?
400
The first six letters on a keyboard(without looking) are these.
What is Q-W-E-R-T-Y?
400
We can hear music in this, and other fluids too.
What is Water?
400
Similarly, a cookie only has taste when it has contact with these.
What are Your Taste Buds?
500
The main theme of a musical piece, the part that you probably sing along with, the succession of tones that are most salient in your mind.
What is Melody?
500
The octave is so basic that even some animal species including these two animals can show octave equivalence.
What is Monkeys and Cats?
500
These three types of rocks are the rocks that make up the rock cycle.
What is Sedimentary Rock, Metamorphic Rock, and Igneous Rock?
500
Our brains store and remember the difference between these frequencies by what we call this.
What is sounds?
500
It doesn’t have taste or flavor when it is sitting in the package, only this.