All about Sound
A specific sound heard in a soundscape.
What is a Soundmark?
This instrument is played by waving your hands in the air, creating electromagnetic pulses.
What is a theremin?
The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
What is an ethnography?
Alison.
What is Taylor Swift's middle name?
The highness or lowness of a sound.
What is pitch?
All audible pitches heard at equal volume, sometimes used to help people sleep.
What is white noise?
A grand piano is a good example of this type or category of instrument.
What is a chordophone?
A musical scale consisting of five pitches.
What is a pentatonic scale?
James Taylor.
What artist is Taylor Swift named after?
A single melody with no accompaniment or harmony.
What is monophony?
The set of sounds heard in a specific location at a specific time.
What is a soundscape?
This instrument is an aerophone played by humming into a small plastic tube.
What is a kazoo?
This is the specific location of a soundscape.
What is a setting?
Most of their songs are in duple meter, or groups of 2 or 4.
What do Taylor Swift, K-Pop and Johnny Cash have in common?
A sound with no overtones, generally not found in nature.
What is a sine wave?
A male vocalist capable of singing soprano, who likely has no children.
What is a castrati?
A banjo is an instrument that falls into these two category types.
What is a chordophone and a membranophone?
Organized sound meaningful to people within a specific time and place.
What is music?
Most Taylor Swift songs are examples of this kind of form.
What is strophic?
The length of time a sound sustains.
What is Duration?
Size, construction materials, and overtones produced all contribute to this.
What is the quality (or timbre) of an instrument?
Used for story telling, expressions of spirituality, and to mark the passing of the seasons.
What is a native American flute?
The collection of beliefs, concepts, arts, crafts, skills, ideas, customs, and practices held jointly by a group of people. This collection expresses how the group identifies their way of life and shapes how the group thinks and what makes the group unique and different from other groups.
What is culture?
Most Taylor Swift songs are examples of this kind of texture.
What is homophony?
This composer's famous piece, 4'33" consists mostly of silence.
Who is John Cage?