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