Sound Science
Music Technology
Jazz
Genres
Musical Potpourri
100
Sound travels in this kind of wave.

Longitudinal or pressure waves.

100

This invention uses magnetism to record sound. 

What are tapes-8 track or cassette.

100
The city in which Jazz was born.
What is New Orleans.
100
Popular Music, Popular Music, Popular Music.
What is Pop.
100
Sound is produced by this.
What is vibration.
200

If you change this part of the sound wave, you change the volume.

What is the compression.

200

The inventor of the first recording technology was also known for inventing a working light bulb. 

Who is Thomas Edison. 

200

Two cultures that combined to make Jazz music were Spanish and French. What is the third culture?

What is African. (Gave interesting complicated rhythms)

200
This music technology came first: Cd's Records Tapes Ipods
What is Records
200
The speed of the music.
What is Tempo
300

If you can count the number of waves per second, you find the ______________ or _________ of the sound. 

What is frequency or pitch.

300

Which type of recording technology gives you the best original sound? 

What are records.

300
He sang "What a Wonderful World" and "Black and Blue" as well as played the trumpet.
Who is Louis Armstrong.
300

The newest genre of music, it relies mainly on computers.

What is Digital Music or Techno Music.

300
Frequency is related to what quality of a sound?
What is Pitch.
400

Large instruments make what kind of sound? 

What is low or deep. 

400

These two inventions came into American life so close together, that most homes rearranged their living spaces because of it. Name both inventions.

What are record players and radios. 

400
Where people during the prohibition era could go in New York City to drink, dance and listen to Jazz in speakeasies.
What is Harlem.
400
King of this genre was Elvis Presley and it relied on the use of electricity.
What is Rock.
400

This type of music spread throughout the world during the early 1900's to 1950's as the most popular.

What is Jazz.

500

Sound can be used for much more than music. Name 3 other uses. 

What is Ultrasound, Echolocation, Sonar, breaking things, sound weapons, levitation, communication...

500

When you want music the fastest and easiest, but not always the best quality, you use music recorded by this technology. (Not the device...)

What is digital music. (binary code traveling through the internet.)

500

Name 4 instruments that would be seen in a Jazz band

What are String instruments(violin, viola, cello and String Bass), Woodwinds (clarinet, saxophones), Brass (Trumpets, Trombones) Piano, Guitar, Full Drum set.

500
This genre features mostly string instruments and was born in our region of the country.
What is Bluegrass.
500
"I was hanging wit' my homies, Shootin' some ball when a couple of guys who were up to no good, started makin' trouble in my neighborhood" These lyrics would most likely be found in what genre?
What is Rap/Hip Hop.