Music Vocabulary
Musical Instruments
Random Facts
(this section may be hard!)
Music History/Eras
Music and the Brain
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The term for playing fast.

What is Allegro?

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The first known instrument

What is a Bone Flute?

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This is considered one of the most prestigious music awards in the U.S.

What is a Grammy?

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This is the earliest music era that we have covered.

What is Baroque Music?

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Music enhances this areas thinking, decision making and planning.

What is the Frontal Lobe?

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Notes that clash.

What is Dissonance?

199

Looks like a piano, but is a string instrument

What is a Harpsichord?

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This song was popularized by singer Frank Sinatra.

What is "My Way"?

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This composers most well known Symphony is Symphony No. 5.

Who is Beethoven?

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Music can help this area with speech.

What is the Broca's Area?

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A recurring melody in music.

What is a Leitmotif?

299

Shaped like a saxophone, but not a brass instrument

What is a Bass Clarinet?

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This music era comes before the Renaissance Era.

What is Medieval Music?

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This era has 4 different types/variations (Impressionism, Primitivism, Neoclassicism, and Atonality)

What is Contemporary?

299

Music can help this area when people have Parkinson's disease.

What is the Putamen?

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A way of playing violin that involves plucking.

What is Pizzicato?

399

Hand cranked string instrument that seems to be having somewhat of an identity crisis

What is a Hurdy Gurdy?

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This is widely considered the best selling synthesizer of all time.

What is the Korg M1?

399

This era made public concerts a more social event.

What is Classical Music?

399

Music increases dopamine in this area.

What is the Nucleus Accumbens?

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A section where exposition themes are restated.

What is Recapitulation?

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Acoustic and runs on water.

What is the Hydraulophone?

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This person is considered "The Queen of R&B".

Who is Ruth Brown?

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One of the earliest symphony composers (well, the most well known one at least)

Who is Giovanni Battista Sammartini?

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This area helps the function of hand and eye coordination which helps pianists to play sheet music.

What is the Corpus Callosum?