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Basic History
Facts about Countries
Ice Age Flute
Science of Music
Musical Language
100
This is the number of years humans have been creating music.
What is 35,000 years.
100
Iraq
What is the Niqqur Fragment
100
The year the Ice Age Flute was discovered.
What is 2004
100
The three actions that consist of a sound wave.
What is vibrating, compressing, refracting.
100
Sometimes behave so
strangely
200
The oldest form of music notation was found in this country around 2,000 BC.
What is Iraq
200
Syria
What are the Hurrian Hymns
200
The two types of materials these flutes were made out of.
What are vulture bones and mammoth tusks
200
If I listen to extremely loud music/noise excessively, what happens?
Hair cells in the cochlea break, or are damaged, and won't repair after repeated damage creating hearing loss.
200
When someone can hear a note and tell you what it is without any type of reference pitch, what skill do they have?
What is perfect pitch.
300
These three types of materials have been used in the ancient times to create instruments.
What animal bones, skins, and plants.
300
China
What is the Gu qin
300
The two methods for playing the Ice Age Flute.
What is top blown and side blown
300
Describe the vibrations of low notes and high notes.
Low notes are slower vibrations. High notes are faster vibrations.
300
This is the chemical released into the brain in small amounts creates a pleasant effect, while in large amounts creates anger.
What is dopamine.
400
These are the two things the Greeks thought would balance the whole person.
What are athletics and music
400
Germany
What is flute made from vulture wing bones and mammoth tusks.
400
The name of the caves the flute was found in.
What is Hohle Fels Caves
400
Describe what loud volume and soft volume look like in sound waves.
Loud is more often and higher wave sizes. Soft is less frequent and lower wave sizes.
400
Describe what sound you would hear if the electricity to your brain is rhythmic and regular compared to jagged and irregular.
Rhythmic and regular is a pleasing, or consonant sound. Jagged and irregular is unsettling, or dissonant sound.
500
These 7 values are The Ethos of Art and The Importance of Music.
What is finding truth throughout life, understanding the journey of others, connecting with our life as emotional and intellectual people, escape from reality, physical response or release, connecting with the present and past, celebrations/ceremonies.
500
Israel AND Mexico
What is the ta'amim and the dancing figurine whistle.
500
The name of the scale used for most folk music including that of the Ice Age Flute.
What is the pentatonic scale
500
Describe the process of hearing (name parts of the ear) beginning with the outer ear, then the middle ear, and finally, the inner ear.
Outer ear funnels sound waves to the tympanic drum (ear drum), the ear drum vibrates causes the hammer to hit the anvil then the anvil to move the stirrup then the stirrup to push the fluid of the cochlea in the middle ear. The fluid of the cochlea moves over hair cells in the inner ear which send electricity, or neurons, to the brain to find patterns thus creating sound.
500
What is the computer program called that takes numbers and patterns of numbers and turns them into musical notation?
What is EMI, or Experimental Musical Intelligence.