Academic Super Bowl: Fine Arts

straight trumpets

- brass instruments - a single long tube w/out coiling and keys found on a modern trumpet

zithers

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Chords

A chord, in music, is any harmonic set of pitches consisting of two or more notes that are heard as if sounding simultaneously.

sistra

Ancient musical instruments like rattles. They were often used in religious ceremonies.

The Great Sphinx

Huge monument "guarding" the great pyramid

Major or Minor Key

In Western music, describe a musical composition, movement, section, scale, key, chord, or interval.

Cadence

In Western musical theory, a cadence is "a melodic or harmonic configuration that creates a sense of resolution [finality or pause]

Consonance and Dissonance

In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds. Consonance is associated with sweetness, pleasantness, and acceptability; dissonance is associated with harshness, unpleasantness, or unacceptability.

Diatonic Scale

In western music theory, a diatonic scale is a heptatonic scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or three whole steps, depending on their position in the scale

Mesopotamia instruments

Lyre(10 stringed instrument, played like a guitar) Flute Harp—horizontal(played with a plectrum) and vertical harps (holy harp because it was played by King David in the Bible) drum concussion clubs, clappers, sistra, bells, cymbals, and rattles.

When was music used in Mesopotamia?

Marriages and births in the royal families. Accompaniment in recitation of poetry and peace offerings which they did for the gods and goddesses.

lyres

Small harp, string instrument

Chromatic Scale

The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below its adjacent pitches. As a result, in 12-tone equal temperament, the chromatic scale covers all 12 of the available pitches. Thus, there is only one chromatic scale.

Tonality

Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions and directionality.

Israel instruments

Trumpets and horns were blown to call people to worship and to signal momentous events. Harps and lyres were plucked and strummed to pacify royalty Drums, cymbals and rattles were beaten and shaken to celebrate a joyful occasion

Pentatonic Scale

a five-note scale found often in folk music and non-Western music

Cadence

a melodic or harmonic configuration that creates a sense of resolution

idiophone

an instrument the whole of which vibrates to produce a sound when struck, shaken, or scraped, such as a bell, gong, or rattle.

Painting with a cartouche

an oval with a horizontal line at one end, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name.

The Great Pyramid of Khufu at Gaza

built by the pharaoh Khufu.

Geese of Meidum

considered a masterpiece.

Ancient Enharmonic

dealing with pitch, two notes with slightly similar pitches

The Tomb Owner Hunting

depicted with wife and children.

Ram in a Thicket

elaborate gold figurine found at Ur, early example of ceramics and art

Shabti Figures

funerary objects in ancient Egypt who accompanied the deceased to the after-life

Sharp

higher in pitch by one semitone

Resolution

in western tonal music theory is the move of a note or chord from dissonance to a consonance

circle of fifths

keys or tonalities ordered by ascending (for sharp keys) or descending (for flat keys) intervals of a fifth

Flat

lower in pitch by one semitone

Modulation

process of changing from one key to another

Pitch class

set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart

Key signature

set of sharp, flat, and rarely, natural symbols placed together on the staff

Sharps

sharp, dièse, or diesis means higher in pitch. More specifically, in musical notation, sharp means "higher in pitch by one semitone ". Sharp is the opposite of flat, which is a lowering of pitch.

Harmony

simultaneously occurring frequencies, pitches, or chords

consonance

sweetness, pleasantness, and acceptability

Resolution

the move of a note or chord from dissonance to a consonance

Semitone

the smallest musical interval

Enharmonic-modern

two different names for the same pitch