Any musical geniuses bored and....

[dragonzmad]

want to answer a bunch of test questions for an online music class I have? (its a general ed class and the questions are basic, for some) I don't know and am feeling too lazy to read.\


(does this belong in the casual or music theory thread?)

[Jaded]

What is your teacher's email address?

[Diatonic Dissonance™]

Me please.

[Bass Queen]

i'm not a musical genius...but i'm bored and i'll do it

[dragonzmad]

this is for an actual grade

1.
Which of the following is the most concise definition of music (as stated in this course)?

(a) Pleasant sounds

(b) Melody with chords

(c) Composed sounds that can be performed

(d) Structured sounds in time

2.
Instruments sound different from one another because:

(a) they play at different amplitudes.

(b) they have very different overtones.

(c) their envelopes start at different times.

(d) their overtones have different volumes and envelopes.

3.
Harmony is

(a) when two sounds are pleasant sounding.

(b) when four guys dressed in barbershop outfits sing.

(c) dissonant music

(d) when two or more different notes are played at the same time.

4.
Which instrument would have the shortest sustain?

(a) Drum

(b) Singer

(c) Organ

(d) Violin

5.
Musical rhythm is most simply described as:

(a) Meter and measures

(b) Accents and notes

(c) Structured time

(d) Toe tapping songs

6.
What is hertz?

(a) A car rental agency

(b) The result of a severe injury

(c) Cycles per second

(d) A musical tone

7.
Which instrument would have the shortest attack?

(a) Gong

(b) Violin

(c) Drum

(d) Singer

8.
When does sound become music?

(a) When sound is heard.

(b) When a majority of a culture agrees that a sound is musical.

(c) When an artist is involved with the structuring of sound.

(d) When you like the sound.

9.
Which of the following does not describe part of a normal sound envelope?

(a) Decay

(b) Amplitude

(c) Release

(d) Attack

(e) Sustain

10.
Volume on a graph of a sine wave is shown by:

(a) the width of the wave cycle.

(b) how many sine waves appear in every inch.

(c) the distance between the top of the sine wave and the bottom.

(d) how thick the line is.

11.
Which of the following is not part of a sine wave's description?

(a) Frequency

(b) Compressed area

(c) Stretched area

(d) Rarefied area

12.
Which of the following does not apply to consonance and dissonance?

(a) Whether a person likes a musical style

(b) The ratio between two frequencies

(c) A listener's perception of two or more sounds

(d) The alignment of the overtones in two or more notes

13.
Which of the following is not a musical composite structure?

(a) Time

(b) Harmony

(c) Melody

(d) Scales

14.
The simplest and basic elements of music are harmony, melody and rhythm.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

15.
Noise is a purely perceived sound. It has no technical meaning.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

16.
A human can usually hear a sine wave of 30,000 hertz.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

17.
Sine waves are the building blocks of sound.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

18.
A sine wave is a constant pressure of air on your ear.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

19.
Sine waves and time are musical structures.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

20.
Dissonance is when any two waveforms combine.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

21.
Music has both aural and cognitive dimensions.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

22.
Water can be a medium for sound.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

23.
Music is mostly a matter of understanding. If you know how to perform, doing it is fairly straight forward.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

24.
Pink noise can sound pleasant.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

25.
Volume is the same as amplitude.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

[dragonzmad]

i'm not a musical genius...but i'm bored and i'll do it
i dont want your help then:)

seriously

[Diatonic Dissonance™]

1.
Which of the following is the most concise definition of music (as stated in this course)?

(a) Pleasant sounds

(b) Melody with chords

(c) Composed sounds that can be performed

(d) Structured sounds in time

2.
Instruments sound different from one another because:

(a) they play at different amplitudes.

(b) they have very different overtones.

(c) their envelopes start at different times.

(d) their overtones have different volumes and envelopes.

3.
Harmony is

(a) when two sounds are pleasant sounding.

(b) when four guys dressed in barbershop outfits sing.

(c) dissonant music

(d) when two or more different notes are played at the same time.

4.
Which instrument would have the shortest sustain?

(a) Drum

(b) Singer

(c) Organ

(d) Violin

5.
Musical rhythm is most simply described as:

(a) Meter and measures

(b) Accents and notes

(c) Structured time

(d) Toe tapping songs

6.
What is hertz?

(a) A car rental agency

(b) The result of a severe injury

(c) Cycles per second

(d) A musical tone

7.
Which instrument would have the shortest attack?

(a) Gong

(b) Violin

(c) Drum

(d) Singer

8.
When does sound become music?

(a) When sound is heard.

(b) When a majority of a culture agrees that a sound is musical.

(c) When an artist is involved with the structuring of sound.

(d) When you like the sound.

9.
Which of the following does not describe part of a normal sound envelope?

(a) Decay

(b) Amplitude

(c) Release

(d) Attack

(e) Sustain

10.
Volume on a graph of a sine wave is shown by:

(a) the width of the wave cycle.

(b) how many sine waves appear in every inch.

(c) the distance between the top of the sine wave and the bottom.

(d) how thick the line is.

11.
Which of the following is not part of a sine wave's description?

(a) Frequency

(b) Compressed area

(c) Stretched area

(d) Rarefied area

12.
Which of the following does not apply to consonance and dissonance?

(a) Whether a person likes a musical style

(b) The ratio between two frequencies

(c) A listener's perception of two or more sounds

(d) The alignment of the overtones in two or more notes

13.
Which of the following is not a musical composite structure?

(a) Time

(b) Harmony

(c) Melody

(d) Scales

14.
The simplest and basic elements of music are harmony, melody and rhythm.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

15.
Noise is a purely perceived sound. It has no technical meaning.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

16.
A human can usually hear a sine wave of 30,000 hertz.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

17.
Sine waves are the building blocks of sound.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

18.
A sine wave is a constant pressure of air on your ear.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

19.
Sine waves and time are musical structures.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

20.
Dissonance is when any two waveforms combine.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

21.
Music has both aural and cognitive dimensions.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

22.
Water can be a medium for sound.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

23.
Music is mostly a matter of understanding. If you know how to perform, doing it is fairly straight forward.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

24.
Pink noise can sound pleasant.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

25.
Volume is the same as amplitude.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

[dragonzmad]

:(

here is your score dissonant

Total Possible: 25
Your Score: 17

you missed #2 , 5 ,8, 9 ,11 ,13 ,14 ,18

you got me a 68% man :( hahahaha never trust mxers to do a real musicians job....


haha just kidding, thanx for the help :) ALL LOVE

[Diatonic Dissonance™]

2 - D
5 - C
8 - C
9 - C
11 - B
13 - B

Try that.

[doodooking]

6 could be a, its not false, its just not pertaining to music

[Diatonic Dissonance™]

Quite a few of the questions are ambiguous.

[trumpeter]

quite a few are opinion questions

like "what is music"

[Chameleon]

Lol, I stopped when I read that Diatonic Dissonance got the first question right..(no offence).

Since when did music have to be in time to be called music?

[T2k5]

Since when did music have to be in time to be called music?
And whose definition of time? African tribal music, for example, has completely different idea of time than what we have. We don't understand their timing, which means it's not in time for us and therefore not music. The quiz has many stupid questions with no right answers.

[Chameleon]

And whose definition of time? African tribal music, for example, has completely different idea of time than what we have. We don't understand their timing, which means it's not in time for us and therefore not music. The quiz has many stupid questions with no right answers.

Yep, i'm guessing it's mid-highschool music class or something? We had to do the same crap...

[eoin5]

Frank Zappa wouldnt even get one of those right, :D

[bbbbass]

Quite a few of the questions are ambiguous.

Harmony-when two notes are played at the same time???

HAHA, no.

[basgitarist]

maybe you should have waited fot a second opninion before submitting the answers :p

further more I find Diatonic Dissonance is presenting his answers as facts. If you're not sure, just say so...

[dragonzmad]

Yep, i'm guessing it's mid-highschool music class or something? We had to do the same crap...

college music appreciation or intro to music etc...

I dont even know the official name of the class

[dragonzmad]

maybe you should have waited fot a second opninion before submitting the answers :p

further more I find Diatonic Dissonance is presenting his answers as facts. If you're not sure, just say so...

it wasn't a big deal so I don't care. diatonic did a great job provided that he didnt read the text and the answers weren't absolute truth

[Bass_swede]

quite a few are opinion questions

like "what is music"


I thought that too. Very subjective..

[Skit]

1.
Which of the following is the most concise definition of music (as stated in this course)?

(a) Pleasant sounds

(b) Melody with chords

(c) Composed sounds that can be performed

(d) Structured sounds in time

2.
Instruments sound different from one another because:

(a) they play at different amplitudes.

(b) they have very different overtones.

(c) their envelopes start at different times.

(d) their overtones have different volumes and envelopes.

3.
Harmony is

(a) when two sounds are pleasant sounding.

(b) when four guys dressed in barbershop outfits sing.

(c) dissonant music

(d) when two or more different notes are played at the same time.

4.
Which instrument would have the shortest sustain?

(a) Drum

(b) Singer

(c) Organ

(d) Violin

5.
Musical rhythm is most simply described as:

(a) Meter and measures

(b) Accents and notes

(c) Structured time

(d) Toe tapping songs

6.
What is hertz?

(a) A car rental agency

(b) The result of a severe injury

(c) Cycles per second

(d) A musical tone

7.
Which instrument would have the shortest attack?

(a) Gong

(b) Violin

(c) Drum

(d) Singer

8.
When does sound become music?

(a) When sound is heard.

(b) When a majority of a culture agrees that a sound is musical.

(c) When an artist is involved with the structuring of sound.

(d) When you like the sound.

9.
Which of the following does not describe part of a normal sound envelope?

(a) Decay

(b) Amplitude

(c) Release

(d) Attack

(e) Sustain

10.
Volume on a graph of a sine wave is shown by:

(a) the width of the wave cycle.

(b) how many sine waves appear in every inch.

(c) the distance between the top of the sine wave and the bottom.

(d) how thick the line is.

11.
Which of the following is not part of a sine wave's description?

(a) Frequency

(b) Compressed area

(c) Stretched area

(d) Rarefied area

12.
Which of the following does not apply to consonance and dissonance?

(a) Whether a person likes a musical style

(b) The ratio between two frequencies

(c) A listener's perception of two or more sounds

(d) The alignment of the overtones in two or more notes

13.
Which of the following is not a musical composite structure?

(a) Time

(b) Harmony

(c) Melody

(d) Scales

14.
The simplest and basic elements of music are harmony, melody and rhythm.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

15.
Noise is a purely perceived sound. It has no technical meaning.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

16.
A human can usually hear a sine wave of 30,000 hertz.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

17.
Sine waves are the building blocks of sound.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

18.
A sine wave is a constant pressure of air on your ear.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

19.
Sine waves and time are musical structures.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

20.
Dissonance is when any two waveforms combine.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

21.
Music has both aural and cognitive dimensions.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

22.
Water can be a medium for sound.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

23.
Music is mostly a matter of understanding. If you know how to perform, doing it is fairly straight forward.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

24.
Pink noise can sound pleasant.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.

25.
Volume is the same as amplitude.

Select one:

TRUE.

FALSE.












Fail :upset:
I do a mixing music course so I dont expect to have done very well in this ;)

[bbbbass]

Here's my best take on it

1.D
2.D
3.A
4.A
5.A
6.C
7.B
8.C
9.B
10.C
11.C
12.A
13.D
14.T
15.T
16.T
17.T
18.F
19.F
20.T
21.T
22.T
23.F
24.T
25.T

It may be too late for you, but there it is.

[Jaded]

And whose definition of time? African tribal music, for example, has completely different idea of time than what we have. We don't understand their timing, which means it's not in time for us and therefore not music. The quiz has many stupid questions with no right answers.
Um...yes we do.

[Aberrationbass]

this is wank
half of that is Science
you can't right or wrong art when its all has to be interpretated

[bbbbass]

Okay, yes, these questions all can have many answers, BUT... it specifically says based on the class instruction. Therefore, what your instructor says is the answer is!!!

[Jaded]

this is wank
half of that is Science
you can't right or wrong art when its all has to be interpretated
None of that is interpretation. It is mostly practical commonly accepted definitions, and other definitions that work well.

That test is freaking easy. Try taking an Art History class if you want something to b*tch about.

[AlmightyPancake]

None of that is interpretation. It is mostly practical commonly accepted definitions, and other definitions that work well.

That test is freaking easy. Try taking an Art History class if you want something to b*tch about.
123. Musical structure is in no way inhibiting on interpretation. This is evident in the way that "Free Time" is a perfectly acceptable form of musical style.

[bbbbass]

None of that is interpretation. It is mostly practical commonly accepted definitions, and other definitions that work well.

That test is freaking easy. Try taking an Art History class if you want something to b*tch about.

Well, I think they took the "when is sound music" question as if it was sentimental, but yeah, I do agree with you.

[SixnStones]

wat a mission of a test, shocking questions. The volume is NOT the top to bottom of the sine curve, but the top to the origin.
http://www.gcsescience.com/a/Changed-Sound-Wave-CRO.gif

[apacherosepeacock]

those questions are ****.

a lot of them are too vague or the answers are debatable

[T2k5]

Um...yes we do.
That was just a generalization to show how stupid those questions are. I doubt people could just go to Africa and start playing like they do without any prior experience.

[AlmightyPancake]

That was just a generalization to show how stupid those questions are. I doubt people could just go to Africa and start playing like they do without any prior experience.
You attacked the legitimacy of music being in time. All music is in time, reguardless. You may not actively count it, it may be uncountable, but it's still in time.

[MuRd0K]

If the professor says 2 + 2 = 5, then you have to answer on his test that answer.

However, it can be misinterpreted, but I knew some of the answers that that guy gave you were completely wrong.

Meh, that's why I don't like to copy/cheat, I don't trust people with that sortof stuff =S.

[Guinpen]

That was just a generalization to show how stupid those questions are. I doubt people could just go to Africa and start playing like they do without any prior experience.

An African couldn't just go to Africa and start playing like they do without prior experience, either. Everyone has to learn and develop these things, even those crazy afros themselves.

[Shinobi_sniper]

(b) when four guys dressed in barbershop outfits sing.

I lol'd at that

[Diatonic Dissonance™]

Lol, I stopped when I read that Diatonic Dissonance got the first question right..(no offence).

Since when did music have to be in time to be called music?

1.
Which of the following is the most concise definition of music (as stated in this course)?

(a) Pleasant sounds

(b) Melody with chords

(c) Composed sounds that can be performed

(d) Structured sounds in time
I knew that a music course would teach that as the true definition of music, even though a car crashing into another car could technically be called "music".

Harmony-when two notes are played at the same time???

HAHA, no.
Believe it or not, I agree. It is when two sounds are pleasing.

I just know from experience that music teaches always say that melody is separate notes played one after the other, and harmony is more than one note. It's just what you get taught in music class.

further more I find Diatonic Dissonance is presenting his answers as facts. If you're not sure, just say so...
Only a few of the questions given were based on factual information.

Okay, yes, these questions all can have many answers, BUT... it specifically says based on the class instruction. Therefore, what your instructor says is the answer is!!!
Exactly. How do you expect us to get some of these questions right? We're just going by what we have learnt.


wat a mission of a test, shocking questions. The volume is NOT the top to bottom of the sine curve, but the top to the origin.
Oddly enough I think I got that one right...

[JDC III]

im bored so can i talk to you guys

[cAPS_lOCK]

wat a mission of a test, shocking questions. The volume is NOT the top to bottom of the sine curve, but the top to the origin.
http://www.gcsescience.com/a/Changed-Sound-Wave-CRO.gif


Well, the question was how the VOLUME is derived, not the amplitude. If you wanted the volume you could technically look at the double amplitude too, it wouldn't make a difference. If you divided by two, that is.

[Diatonic Dissonance™]

im bored so can i talk to you guys
Nein.

[basgitarist]

I spell Diatonic Dissonance right, but you can't even spell basgitarist right... :)

[Diatonic Dissonance™]

Oh, haha. Have you ever read that thing about how people can witre liek tihs and as lnog as the frist and lsat ltteres are the same you will be able to read it?

That just happened with your name, :p.

[basgitarist]

yaeh I hareed auobt it but I'm not srue if it's rhgit thguoh ;)

[Diatonic Dissonance™]

Heh. Anyway, what answers would you have given for this?

[Jaded]

I knew that a music course would teach that as the true definition of music, even though a car crashing into another car could technically be called "music".
Well, no. That would be noise. You need to have some kind of working definition of music or else the word "music" wouldn't really have any meaning, now would it? You can't let it get that subjective.

[Jaded]

those questions are ****.

a lot of them are too vague or the answers are debatable
Once again, no, they aren't. Almost all of them are technical questions that are not debateable at all. There is only one question that is, and the correct answer still seems pretty obvious.

[Diatonic Dissonance™]

For the first question I just used process of elimination.

It can't be "pleasant sounds" because what's pleasant is subjective. It can't be "melody with chords" because percussion ensembles are still making "music". And for the last one I was actually having trouble deciding between this and option "d". Once I read option "d" though, I knew it would be the type of answer that they teach in a music course.

[Jaded]

d was the most obvious answer.

edit: holy sh*t you have a lot of posts. Did you change your username or something? Should I know you?

[Diatonic Dissonance™]

Well, when I first joined I was "gavman666", then after a while I became "god_hates_us_all", then I joined the two and changed my name to "Diatonic Dissonance™".

I notice you're from Dec 2003 aswell... :cool:.

[Jaded]

Ah. I sort of remember you. I actually joined in Aug 03, but it's all good.