Music
Music
Music
Music
Music
100
This quality of sound is affected by the amplitude of a sound wave.
What is how loud or soft the sound is?
100
This is what we call the highness or lowness of a sound.
What is pitch?
100
This is the pitch that most orchestral musicians use to tune their instruments.
What is 440 Hz?
100
This is the modern term for scholars who study the music of other cultures or who study multiple cultures comparatively.
What are ethnomusicologists?
100
These are the five classical families for Western instruments.
What are string, brass, woodwind, percussion and keyboard?
200
Name three brass instruments.
What are trumpet, trombone, French horn, tuba, flugelhorn, baritone, bugle?
200
These four cities had famous postwar centers for electronic music.
What are Rome, Paris, Cologne, and New York City?
200
This is the name for the distance between a note and another with twice the frequency.
What is an octave?
200
This year marks the beginning of equal temperament tuning's dominance in the Western music tradition.
What is 1750?
200
In Western tradition, this is the number of pitches that most music is based upon.
What is 7 pitches (arranged in ascending order, these make up a scale)?
300
These are the names of the four categories into which Curt Sachs and Eric von Hornbostel divided all instruments.
What are chordophones, aerophones, membranophones, and idiophones?
300
This is the name of the first note of a scale.
What is the tonic?
300
This is the term used when two conflicting rhythmic patterns are present simultaneously.
What is polyrhythm or cross-rhythm?
300
This is the value of a dot after a note.
What is half the value of the note that precedes it?
300
This is a term which means that a pitch is attacked with force and allowed to die quickly.
What is staccato?
400
Some of the most important folk music collectors came from this country.
What is Germany?
400
This man's ideas were established as the Romantic and nationalist understanding of folk song.
Whois Johann Gottfried herder?
400
This is the area of Russia where the folk song The Day was Breaking from.
What is the Smolensk region?
400
This is the term for a song that has a long meld with many twists and turns in it.
What is protyazhnaya?
400
This is the theme of The Day was Breaking.
What is recruitment into the army?
500
This was the period of duty in the Russian Tsarist Army.
What is 25 years?
500
This man is considered the "Father of Russian Music".
Who is Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka?
500
This is the name of Glinka's first opera that is generally considered as the first Russian national opera.
What is A Life for the Tsar?
500
This man is considered as the first Russian operatic composer to rise to prominence.
Who is Maxim Berezovsky?
500
This is what the Russian Music Society first did of importance.
What is organized public concerts in St. Petersburg and Moscow?
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