The broadest definition of music is: "sound organized in time"

• True

• False

What is required to make music? (Multi-Choice)

• Time frame

• Performers to create the sound

• Composer who first imagines the music

• Sound waves

• A mind to interpret and perceive the sounds

A sound wave have _________ and ________. (Put ONE space between the two answers)

Which one is INCORRECT?

• There are two kinds of music sounds: pitched & non-pitched.

• The categories of music instruments created by the two ethnomusicologists were Chordophones, Aerophones, Membranephones, Idiophones, and Electrophones

• Amplitude of a sound wave affects the decibel level --- how loud or soft the tone is

• The categories of music instruments made by Curt Sachs and Eric von Hornbostel appeared in the late nineteenth century

Which definition of musical concept is INCORRECT?

• Improvisation is when composition and performance happen simultaneously

• Pitch is the highness or lowness of the sound.

• musique concrète is when live instrumental music is recorded on tape, and the tape music would be edited, manipulated and recombined electronically to form sound collages

• semitone is the distance between every other key

"A pitch" is________.

• The same as pitch.

• steady single tone whose highness/lowness does not change

• Same as harmonic.

Which cities were famous centers for electronic music after World War II? (select all that apply)

• Paris

• Chicago

• New York City

• Cologne

• Rome

Which is INCORRECT?

• # is (flat), meaning a given pitch has been raised by a half step

• Octave is: The distance between A and the next higher/lower A

• Harmonic is when two pitches occur simultaneously, Melodic is when two pitches occurs one after the other

• A scale is a sequence of pitches in either ascending or descending order.

• The name of 11 half steps is: Major seventh. Diminished fifth/tritone is 6 half steps.