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History of Electronic Music

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

One of the first electronic instruments built by Thaddeus Cahill, weighing 200 tons.

a)

Theremin

b)

Hammond Organ

c)

Telharmonium

d)

Musique Concrete

2.

What does MIDI stand for?

a)

Multiple Instrument Digital Interface

b)

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

c)

Many Instruments Digital Interface

d)

Musical Instrument Dynamic Interface

3.

An instrument that can only play one note at a time is.

a)

homophonic

b)

monophonic

c)

polyphonic

d)

telharmonic

4.

DAW stands for.

a)

Digital Amplifier Workstation

b)

Digital Audio Workaround

c)

Digital Audio Workstation

5.

A multi-timbral synthesizer is an instrument that allows only one sound to be played simultaneously.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

A French approach to composition involving tape manipulation.

a)

Champs-Elysees

b)

Musique Concrete

c)

Tour de France

d)

Veloute de mousseron

7.

An instrument capable of playing multiple notes simultaneously.

a)

homophonic

b)

monophonic

c)

polyphonic

d)

philharmonic

8.

Allowed the recording of multiple parts, one at a time, while listening to previously recorded tracks.

a)

Multi-timbral Synthesis

b)

Multitrack Recording

c)

Musique Concrete

d)

Polyphonic Synthesizer

9.

Inventor and pioneer of multitrack recording.

a)

Gibson

b)

Les Paul

c)

Dizzy Gillespie

d)

Robert Moog

10.

Built the first solid body electric guitar in 1941.

a)

Gibson

b)

Les Paul

c)

Dizzy Gillespie

d)

Robert Moog

11.

An electronic instrument that is controlled by moving one's hands in the air around it.

a)

Moog Synthesizer

b)

RCA Mark 2 Synthesizer

c)

Theremin

d)

Piano

12.

Recorded by Wendy Carlos in 1968 on a Moog synthesizer.

a)

Musique Concrete

b)

Switched on Bach

c)

Hey Ya

d)

Goldberg Variations

13.

Best known as a composer of electronic and experimental music.

a)

Laurens Hammond

b)

Thaddeus Cahill

c)

Otto Luening

d)

Wendy Carlos

14.

Techniques include changing tape speed, direction, looping, splicing, and addition of filters and reverb.

a)

Multi-timbral Synthesis

b)

Multitrack Recording

c)

Musique Concrete

d)

Theremin

15.

A set of standardized messages that allow different electronic music devices to communicate with one another.

a)

Theremin

b)

digital

c)

MIDI

d)

polyphonic

16.

First reasonably priced digital synthesizer produced in 1983 and the most popular synthesizer ever made.

a)

Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer

b)

Telharmonium

c)

Moog Synthesizer

d)

RCA Mark 1/2 Synthesizer

17.

Modular synthesizer that’s sounds were created using patch cords to connect the various modules together in different configurations to produce different sounds.

a)

Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer

b)

Telharmonium

c)

Moog Synthesizer

d)

RCA Mark 1/2 Synthesizer

18.

The first true studio synthesizer.

a)

Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer

b)

Telharmonium

c)

Moog Synthesizer

d)

RCA Mark 1/2 Synthesizer

19.

Instrument invented in 1935, which used mechanical means to produce music, much like the Telharmonium.

a)

Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer

b)

Hammond B3 Organ

c)

Moog Synthesizer

d)

RCA Mark 1/2 Synthesizer

20.

One of the earliest composers / pioneers of creating purely electronic music without the use of recorded sound.

a)

Milton Babbitt

b)

Otto Luening

c)

Karlheinz Stockhausen

d)

Thaddeus Cahill

21.

Invented the first modular analog synthesizer in the 1960s.

a)

Milton Babbitt

b)

Robert Moog

c)

Wendy Carlos

d)

Thaddeus Cahill

22.

Invented an instrument which is played by moving one's hands in the air.

a)

Milton Babbitt

b)

Leon Theremin

c)

Les Paul

d)

Thaddeus Cahill

23.

Invented the B3 organ.

a)

Laurens Hammond

b)

Thaddeus Cahill

c)

Otto Luening

d)

Wendy Carlos

24.

Best known as a composer of electronic, serial, and experimental music in the 20th century.

a)

Milton Babbitt

b)

Leon Theremin

c)

Les Paul

d)

Thaddeus Cahill

25.

Any specific sound within a synthesizer.

a)

switch

b)

plug

c)

patch

d)

jack

26.

Capable of producing continuous electrical changes or fluctuations.

a)

synthesizer

b)

digital

c)

analog

d)

theremin

27.

Two of the parameters controlled when playing the theremin

a)
Speed and intensity
b)
Frequency and resonance
c)
Pitch and volume
d)
Tone and rhythm
28.

The most popular model of the (1970s) Hammond organ

a)
Hammond C-3
b)
Hammond B-3
c)
Hammond M-3
d)
Hammond A-100
29.

The Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer used this type of algorithmic digital synthesis as a means of sound production.

a)
Additive synthesis
b)
Subtractive synthesis
c)
Frequency Modulation (FM) synthesis
d)
Wavetable synthesis
30.

Essentially a collection of 145 modified dynamos employing a number of specially geared shafts and associated inductors to produce alternating currents of different audio frequencies.

a)

Hammond organ

b)

Theremin

c)

Moog synthesizer

d)

Telharmonium