Music Class

Name the region where western classical music originated and the approximate year.

Name the civilization that invented writing and the approximate year.

Give the term for a work in music that is only for the voice (vocal)

Give the term for a work in classical music that is for any instrument other than the voice.

A portion of a book is called a chapter. What is a portion of a work in classical music ?

What is a single note called

What is the first note of a scale called?

What is the last note of a scale called?

What is the definition of an interval?

How many notes make an interval, exactly?

What is the minimum number of notes to make a chord?

What Greek philosopher suggested that music and mathematics were related? (He also developed a now famous theorem about a right triangle.)

According to the philosopher in the previous question, name the three intervals that he observed when the blacksmith struck the anvil with the hammer. (The order doesn’t matter.)

What is the phrase that refers to the ancient Greek idea of the musical sounds that the planets made as they orbited the Sun (or the Earth as they thought then!)? (They were wrong of course, but it was a fun idea!)

There are two steps in music. Name the two.