All music includes the elements of sound and time.
Ans: True
All music must be pretty or beautiful.
Ans: False
Music can have a larger purpose than to sound pleasing.
Ans: False
4. A good definition for music includes subjective factors.
Ans: True
5. The physical characteristics of music involve physics mathematics, and engineering
Ans: True
6. The science of acoustics is typically not used with musical instrument construction.
Ans: False
7. Porous materials will bounce sound waves around a room.
Ans: True
8. Dense materials will absorb sound waves.
Ans: False
9. Music that lacks forward energy may seem static.
Ans: True
10. As opposed to highly structured art music/children's songs rarely communicate a wide range of feelings.
Ans: False
11. Music should never be used as purely functional.
Ans: False
12. Music can have attributes of both folk and classical music.
Ans: True
13. Generally/ Western European music is the only style we consider art music.
Ans: False
14. Music from any culture is a reflection of the society that created it.
Ans: True
15. The existence of music among all peoples is a fairly recent event in history.
Ans: False
16. Musical languages/ styles/ and functions really differ very little among various cultures.
Ans: False
17. All cultures have music because of its power to stimulate emotional responses.
Ans: True
18. Aesthetic responses can be universal or culture-specific.
Ans: True
19. Music can evoke unpleasant associations.
Ans: True
20. Music therapists use music to alter people's feelings.
Ans: True
21. Background music promotes passive listening.
Ans: True
22. Public performers rarely need a motivating force.
Ans: False
23. Performing has its own creative element.
Ans: True
24. A performer's interpretation should not add anything to a composer's notation.
Ans: False
25. Performing can be intended only for the performers themselves.
Ans: True
26. Many people will learn to read music notation.
Ans: False
27. The elements of music are pitch/ duration/ loudness/ and melody.
Ans: False
28. Small thin instruments are higher in pitch than big/wide instruments
Ans: True
29. Placing accents on weak beats or parts of beats produces syncopation.
Ans: True
30. The loudness or softness of music is referred to as timbre.
Ans: False
31. Variety creates a sense of contrast.
Ans: True
32. Repetition creates a sense of contrast.
Ans: False
33. An unstable feeling will drive the music forward to a point of relative stability.
Ans: True
34. Many American popular and religious songs are written in verse-chorus form.
Ans: True
35. Twelve-bar blues is a form derived from a style of American folk song called jazz.
Ans: False
36. Much 20th century classical music emphasizes melody over rhythm and timbre.
Ans: False
37. Music is:
sound that is pleasing to the ear/ sound and silence organized in time/sound you want to hear as music
38. __________ can be used to create music.
Noise/Non-singable melodies/Silence
39. The principles of acoustics can involve such terms as:
frequency range/ echo/ graphic equalizers
40. An audio enthusiast will want a speaker system with the __________ frequency response.
widest
41. Acoustical engineers design auditoriums according to principles like:
. resonance and reverberation
42. The acoustics of a room are considered ___________ when sound waves are absorbed.
dead
43. To appreciate music it is important to ___________ what happened before
and __________ what is about to happen.,remember/anticipate
44. Music is an art and:
a science
45. Regardless of its style
good music:,. lasts
46. A great piece of music encourages repeated:
listening/study/performance
47. Musical stylistic differences among cultures come from:
reasons for the use of music/different instruments/different ways of creating music
48. Music can stimulate:
A. physical reactions/B. physiological reactions
49. Music therapists can help people:
improve their self esteem
50. ___________ in music is the use of written symbols to represent musical sounds.
Notation
51. Most creators usually create music that is:
culture -specific
52. Which of the following makes more use of improvisation?
jazz music
53. When people perceive a single tone we call it:
pitch
54. The __________ the frequency the higher the pitch; the __________ the frequency, the lower the pitch.
faster/slower
55. A sequence of pitches occurring one after another is perceived:
horizontally
56. Instrumental melodies usually can have __________ than vocal melodies.
greater complexity , wider skips, wider ranges
57. Tonality refers to:
the tonal center of a key
58. Harmony is perceived:
vertically
59. The system of using chords in American music is known as:
harmony
60. We usually hear three or more simultaneous sounds as a:
chord
61. Music moves through:
time
62. The variety of changes in the duration of pitches creates:
rhythm
63. Pulse refers to the __________ of the music.
beat
64. Strong weak, strong, weak is an example of:
duple meter
65. Strong weak, weak, strong, weak, weak is an example of:
triple meter
66. __________ music has no pulse a weak pulse, or an irregular pulse.
Nonmetric
67. __________ has a clear pulse with strong beats occurring in different patterns.
Mixed meter
68. __________ intensity generates a louder sound.
Greater
69. In Western classical music instruments are classified according to their:
timbre
70. Tension followed by a release of tension produces:
forward energy
71. Texture in Western music can refer to:
thick and full+thin and transparent
72. Form is frequently depicted by:
letter names (ABABACA)
73. 32-bar song form is found in:
folk songs+religious music+ art songs
74. __________ give a feeling of temporarily stopping with the sense that the music will continue.
Open cadences
75. __________ convey a strong feeling of finality.
Closed cadences
76. Name some non-traditional sounds that have been used in organized music.
rain, waterfall, birds, whales
77. Name an area where one sees the use of acoustics.
room design, concert hall design, stereo specs, sound reinforcement, computer music performance, medical technology, instrument construction
78. Name an area where medical technology uses the science of acoustics.
sonar diagnostics and treatment
79. Why is music considered an aural phenosonar diagnostics and treatmentmenon?
we listen and respond to it as sound
80. Which is more common today creating music that will last for generations, or creating music for immediate consumption?
immediate consumption
81. Name an area or place in which someone with a degree in music therapy may work.
mental health clinics ,hospitals, public schools, private practice
82. List three contributing factors as to why music changes.
society changes people's needs and tastes change, new or refined instruments, new ways of creating, artists' innate need to grow
83. The creative process has two general steps regardless of style. What are they?
choosing elements of sound and organizing them to achieve a result
84. What is the most important part of developing an appreciation for any type of music?
active listening
85. Where do we hear examples of white noise?
possible answers include static on a radio/ roar of a waterfall
86. List three levels of duration by which we perceive music.
possible answers include length of an entire piece/ section of a piece, a phrase, an individual tone
87. What are the four classifications of the instruments of the orchestra?
strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion
88. Name three ways musical tension is created.
possible answers include increase in harmonic or rhythmic complexity increase in dynamic level, a rise in the pitch of a melody, a key change, increase in thickness or density of the sound
89. Name three ways a release of tension is accomplished.
possible answers include returning from complex to simple from high to low, from loud to soft, from less comfortable to more comfortable sounds
90. What is the smallest group of notes having an identifiable character?
a motive
91. acoustics
the science of sound and the physical basis of music
92. frequency
the rate of speed of sound waves
93. momentum
helps music move forward
94. folk music
music for the masses
95. classical music
music for the elite
96. aesthetics::the study of the emotional and expressive aspects of music
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97. background music
can improve our feelings when we're alone
98. score
when music is notated
99. improvised
simultaneously created and performed
100. perceptive listening
listening to music attentively
Match the musical term with the corresponding phrase.
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101. pitch::the relative highness or lowness of sound
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102. duration::how long a pitch lasts
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103. loudness::determined by intensity or energy
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104. tone quality::determined by the shape of sound waves
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105. register::an area of the sound spectrum (high
middle, low)
106. white noise::the entire range of frequencies sounding at once
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107. silence::the absence of frequencies
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108. contour::the shape of a melody
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109. scales::a system of organizing pitches
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110. theme::a complete musical thought
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111. tempo::the rate of speed
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112. meter::the organizing of beats
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113. bar::one group of beats
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114. downbeat::the first beat of each bar
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115. accent::increased stress
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116. timbre::the distinctive tonal quality of an instrument or voice
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117. resolution::the release of tension
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118. dissonance::a form of tension
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119. consonance::a form of resolution
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120. modulation::change of key
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121. genre::a type or category of music
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122. a capella::vocal only
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123. vibrato::the oscillating of a pitch
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