Composer John Cage composed this modern piece to prove that music is not limited to sounds we select and organize for communicative purposes.
What is 4"33'
100
Instruments that produce sound by a vibrating column of air.
What are aerophones?
100
An activity that shares similarities to musical performers.
What is athletic sports (football, basketball, etc.)?
100
This native american instrument is sometimes used as a courting instrument.
What is the flute?
100
Conduct a basic 4 beat pattern.
*Ms. Chandler will tell if correct*
200
Singers aim for this when singing because they support the tone.
What are vowels
200
A maraca, cymbal, marimba, and triangle are all examples of this type of instrument.
What are idiophones?
200
A launchpad and synthesizer is an example of this type of instrument.
What are electrophones?
200
This musical form can be heard today in jazz, rock, rap, blues, and folk music.
What is call-and-response.
200
Conduct a basic 3 beat pattern
*Ms. Chandler will tell if correct*
300
A musical thought - a series of pitches that makes sense.
What is a phrase.
300
Instruments that produce sound by striking or rubbing a skin or membrane stretched across a resonating air chamber.
What are membranophones?
300
A person with a flawless and brilliant technique, who can seemingly do what no one else can.
-or-
someone who is very skilled at their craft.
What is a virtuoso?
300
a musical texture in which a single melodic line is supported by a chordal accompaniment.
What is homophonic texture?
300
This movie features the DO - RE - MI song.
What is the Sound of Music?
400
How high or low someone sings.
What is vocal register?
400
A device that allows people to enjoy listening to music by creating our own sound space; an environment that shuts out the discordant elements of modern life.
What are headphones.
400
The voice is an example of this type of instrument.
What is aerophone?
400
This instrument from Laos resembles a harmonica.
What is a Laotian kaen?
400
Giovanni Gabrieli composed music that smoothed the transition between Renaissance and __________ styles.
What is Baroque?
500
a musical thought
-or-
The ability to imagine or hear in our heads the sound of a melody, a rhythm, various musical timbres, or a performance.
What is audiation?
500
The decibel at which most people under the age of 20 can hear.
What are 18000 Hz
500
A piano falls under either of these categories.
What are chordophones and idiophones?
500
This Italian Benedictine monk and music theorist devised a system of solmization the forms the basis of the Western DO - RE - MI system.
Who is Guido of Arezzo?
500
The name of the conductor in the final video of Chapter 8.