Birthday Music and Dance

Instruments

1. 100 What device is created or adapted to make musical sounds? Response: musical instrument A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. Source: Wikipedia, “Musical instrument”
2. 200 What is a person who plays a musical instrument called? Response: instrumentalist A person who plays a musical instrument is known as an instrumentalist. Source: Wikipedia, “Musical instrument”
3. 300 Which academic field studies musical instruments? Response: organology The academic study of musical instruments is called organology. Source: Wikipedia, “Musical instrument”
4. 400 Which classification system sorts instruments by how they make sound? Response: Hornbostel–Sachs However, the most common academic method, Hornbostel–Sachs, uses the means by which they produce sound. Source: Wikipedia, “Musical instrument”
5. 500 Electricity led to new instruments such as electric guitars and which electronic instrument, played without being touched? Response: theremin While the evolution of traditional musical instruments slowed beginning in the 20th century, the proliferation of electricity led to the invention of new electric and electronic instruments, such as electric guitars, synthesizers, and the theremin. Source: Wikipedia, “Musical instrument”

Written Music

1. 100 Which visual system represents music for later interpretation? Response: Musical notation Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music. Source: Wikipedia, “Musical notation”
2. 200 What do we call interpreting written musical notation? Response: reading music The process of interpreting musical notation is often referred to as reading music. Source: Wikipedia, “Musical notation”
3. 300 Classical sheet music places notes on what sets of lines? Response: staves For example, classical performers most often use sheet music using staves, time signatures, key signatures, and noteheads for writing and deciphering pieces. Source: Wikipedia, “Musical notation”
4. 400 Which number system is the main way professional country musicians write music? Response: Nashville Number System For instance, in professional country music, the Nashville Number System is the main method, and for string instruments such as guitar, it is quite common for tablature to be used by players. Source: Wikipedia, “Musical notation”
5. 500 Which way of writing music is common among guitar players? Response: tablature For instance, in professional country music, the Nashville Number System is the main method, and for string instruments such as guitar, it is quite common for tablature to be used by players. Source: Wikipedia, “Musical notation”

Rhythm

1. 100 The word rhythm comes from which Greek word? Response: rhythmos Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions". Source: Wikipedia, “Rhythm”
2. 200 Rhythm is movement marked by a regular succession of which two kinds of elements? Response: strong and weak elements Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions". Source: Wikipedia, “Rhythm”
3. 300 Express the broader concept as a recurrence or pattern in what dimension? Response: time This general meaning of regular recurrence or pattern in time can apply to a wide variety of cyclical natural phenomena having a periodicity or frequency of anything from microseconds to several seconds (as with the riff in a rock music song); to several minutes or hours, or, at the most extreme, even over many years. Source: Wikipedia, “Rhythm”
4. 400 In performance arts, rhythm describes the timing of what? Response: events In the performance arts, rhythm is the timing of events on a human scale; of musical sounds and silences that occur over time, of the steps of a dance, or the meter of spoken language and poetry. Source: Wikipedia, “Rhythm”
5. 500 In music, rhythm is the timing of which two things? Response: musical sounds and silences In the performance arts, rhythm is the timing of events on a human scale; of musical sounds and silences that occur over time, of the steps of a dance, or the meter of spoken language and poetry. Source: Wikipedia, “Rhythm”

Dance

1. 100 Which art form is made of steps, either improvised or chosen? Response: Dance Dance is an art form, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected. Source: Wikipedia, “Dance”
2. 200 Dance is made of sequences of what? Response: body movements Dance is an art form, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected. Source: Wikipedia, “Dance”
3. 300 Which organizing feature can categorize and describe a dance? Response: choreography Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements or by its historical period or place of origin. Source: Wikipedia, “Dance”
4. 400 What usually accompanies a dance performance? Response: musical accompaniment Dance is typically performed with musical accompaniment, and sometimes with the dancer simultaneously using a musical instrument themselves. Source: Wikipedia, “Dance”
5. 500 Group dance comes in two common types: theatrical and which other? Response: participatory dance Two common types of group dance are theatrical and participatory dance. Source: Wikipedia, “Dance”

Sound

1. 100 Name the phenomenon in which pressure disturbances propagate through a medium. Response: Sound Sound is a phenomenon in which pressure disturbances propagate through an elastic material medium. Source: Wikipedia, “Sound”
2. 200 Sound is made of what kind of disturbances moving through a material? Response: pressure disturbances Sound is a phenomenon in which pressure disturbances propagate through an elastic material medium. Source: Wikipedia, “Sound”
3. 300 Sound travels through what kind of material medium? Response: elastic material medium Sound is a phenomenon in which pressure disturbances propagate through an elastic material medium. Source: Wikipedia, “Sound”
4. 400 In physics, sound is classed as what type of wave? Response: mechanical wave In the context of physics, it is characterised as a mechanical wave of pressure or related quantities (e.g. displacement), whereas in physiological-psychological contexts it implies a hearing process. Source: Wikipedia, “Sound”
5. 500 What range of frequencies can the human ear hear? Response: 20 Hz to 20 kHz Though sensitivity to sound varies among all organisms, the human ear is sensitive to audio frequencies ranging from 20 Hz to 20 kHz. Source: Wikipedia, “Sound”

Final round: Electric Instruments

Electricity led to new instruments such as electric guitars, the theremin and this keyboard instrument. Response: synthesizers While the evolution of traditional musical instruments slowed beginning in the 20th century, the proliferation of electricity led to the invention of new electric and electronic instruments, such as electric guitars, synthesizers, and the theremin. Source: Wikipedia, “Musical instrument”