Exam 13: Music Perception

Juan is learning to play the trumpet.His instructor asks him to listen to recordings of various instruments so he can learn to discriminate different notes and sounds.Juan hears a C played at 261.1 Hz, and then another very similar sounding note played by the same instrument at 523.2 Hz.Juan should recognize the second note as a(n) ______.

Shane is much more musically inclined than Ollie.If their brains were examined the results would show that ______.

Jeven has spent his life drumming in bands that feature traditional Western rhythms.He has been asked by his friend, Carl, to join a band that follows West African traditions and rhythms.What can Jeven expect to experience in his new band?

Explain the relationship between musical recognition and the right hemisphere of the brain.

Two tones that can be expressed as a simple ratio of each other tend to sound pleasant when played together.This relates to the concept of ______.

Krings et al.(2000) examined the brain areas used by professional piano players and a control group.They found that ______.

A form of synesthesia that occurs when particular pitches, notes, or chords elicit experiences of particular visual colors is known as ______.

Which of these brain regions is most associated with pitch perception?

Timbre is the perceived sound differences between sounds with the same pitch but possessing different higher harmonics.

A condition in which a stimulus in one modality consistently triggers a response in another modality is known as ______.

Ivan wants to create a composition for his metal band that makes listeners feel a sense that something is wrong by making his notes sound as though they really do not fit together.He is creating ______.

A set of ordered notes starting at one note and ending at the same note one octave higher is known as ______.

Why was Beethoven's life was somewhat tragic?

In Western music, major scales begin and end on a note ______.

The octave is the interval between one note and a note with either double the frequency or half the frequency of that note.

Zamm, Schlaug, and Eagleman (2013) examined the brains of people with color-music synesthesia.They found that ______.

The earliest musical instruments that archaeologists have found are drums from about 3,000 years ago.

Bill, who was raised in Boston, travels to several countries in Asia and Africa to enjoy different regional forms of music.How might he find his role as part of the audience different as he enjoys musical performances in many of those places?

The interval between one note and a note with either double the frequency or half the frequency of that note is known as the ______.

In music, the term "dynamics" refers to ______.