Prehistoric
The human voice is believed to be this.
This region is located between modern day Iraq and Iran.
What is Mesopotamia?
In ancient Egypt, these musicians were held in the highest regard.
What are temple musicians?
North, West, Central, East, South.
What are the five regions of Africa?
This Civilization has bone flutes that date back to 6,000BC.
What is China?
The Oldest Known Instrument. It is carbon dated to be 50,000-60,000 years old.
What is the Divje Babe Flute?
These people were the early civilization in Mesopotamia.
Who are the Sumerians?
A profession that only women were allowed to learn in ancient Egypt.
What is a musician?
Multiple rhythms that are played simultaneously. Many times they will be in various duple and triple meters.
What are polyrhythms?
This Japanese word refers to all types of drums.
The Divje Babe Flute was found in this country.
What is Slovenia?
Sumerians had a conceptual understanding of these musical elements.
What is melody and harmony?
This musical practice was held as one of the highest skills in Ancient Egypt.
What is singing?
These are the three ancestors to the modern day banjo.
What are the Akonting, Ngoni, and Xalam?
This instrument is a short necked lute. Played in many traditional Japanese compositions.
What is a Biwa?
The material that was used to craft the oldest known instrument.
In ancient Sumerian culture, vocalists were expected to sing in this manner during religious ceremonies.
What is singing harshly?
This instrument has two pipes joined with one mouthpiece.
What is a Zummara?
An instrument that is played using the thumbs.
What is a Kalimba(x2) / Thumb Piano?
This is what Koreans called Jeongganbo. Korea's version is one of the earliest forms of this.
What is musical notation?
The Divje Babe Flute had this many holes. Thus, allowing it to play this type of scale.
What is a 4-note Diatonic Scale?
This song was found in ancient Mesopotamia. Based on the notation and lyrics, it is was believed to have been written to praise the goddess Nikkal.
What is the "Hurrian Hymn No. 6"?
Egyptian Hieroglyphics represent Music as this.
It translates to “Song, Singer, Musician, Conductor, to Play Music” depending on where it is placed in a sentence.
What is “hst” (Hest)?
Africans from Tanzania and other surrounding areas would say this when they arrived at the coast to board the slave ships. It meant that they would never see home again, they would never see Africa again.
What is "Throw down your heart"?
This instrument was a gift from China to Korea. It was eventually modified to create Korea's own unique instrument called the geomungo.
What is the guqin?