*Music Example*
This is the most likely composer of this piece
Who is J.S. Bach?
100
This "D" word is how we describe the volume in music
What is dynamics?
100
This man is credited with inventing the phonograph
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
One of the major recent studies of music and the brain discovered that brain activity can predict how much we would _____________ for a song
What is pay?
100
Of the following, this was the genre of music Stephen Foster was most popular for writing:
-Parlour and Minstrel Songs
-Classical Music
-Rap Music
-Broadway Musicals
What is parlour and minstrel songs?
200
*Music Example*
This composer died in the middle of writing this piece
Who is Mozart?
200
This is a word we use to describe the speed of music
What is tempo?
200
The two fundamental types of recordings are analog and __________________
What is digital?
200
Music has been found to help people suffering from ______________________ Sydrome to control bodily movements.
What is Tourrette's?
200
Stephen Foster had a hard time collecting payment for his music because songwriters did not usually have a _____________________ over their song.
What is copyright?
300
This instrument, with a more plucked sound, is a predecessor of the piano
What is the harpsichord?
300
This aspect of music is defined as the quality of the sound, or the "color"
What is timbre?
300
The invention and advancement of this device helped not only with recording but also with sound amplification
What is the microphone?
300
This is the most accurate of the statements below:
-Music does not acitivate areas of our brain
-Music acitivates one specific area of our brain
-Music activates many different areas of our brain
What is music activates many different areas of our brain?
300
Many of Stephen Foster's songs were performed by minstrel performers in _______________ face
What is black?
400
*Music Example*
He is the composer of this piece, the first of its kind to use voices as an instrument
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
400
This "O" word is the way that instruments are assigned to different parts of music
What is orchestration?
400
This device, developed partially by Neil Young, is supposed to be the next frontier in high quality music listening
What is the PONO?
400
One man in the documentary we watched gained a sudden interest and skill for music when he was _________________________.
What is struck by lightning?
400
*Music Example*
This is the point in Stephen Foster's life when this song was written
What is the end of his life?
500
This is the place where Chopin spent a winter mostly in isolation while composing his Piano Preludes
What is Majorca?
500
This organization of a piece involves one main melody being utilized in many different ways throughout a very tightly structured piece. It was used at great lengths by J.S. Bach
What is a fugue?
500
Sony created this device as a portable means of playing cassette tapes (it was the predecessor of the DiscMan)
What is the Walkman?
500
This blood pumping muscle can be greatly affected by brain activity created by listening to music
What is the heart?
500
One of Foster's best known songs is "Oh! ____________"