Music 1102A/B Study Guide - Idiophone, Tuning Fork, Membranophone

• School: Western University
• Department: Music
• Course: Music 1102A/B
• Professor: Henry Meredith

Document Summary

Opera old maid and the thief . Smashing bottles in box to simulate broken glass: bob"s drunken aria. Coat hanger on a string: requires a resonating chamber, simplest type of idiophone dr. hank could find. Idiophone - whole instrument vibrates: sometimes requires a resonating chamber to make sound. With coat hanger resonating chamber = head. Tuning fork requires a resonating chamber: sometimes idiophones don"t require a resonating chamber. Big enough to create its own resonance. Vibrations carry further in the air than on a coat hanger. Tambourine: both an idiophone and membranophone -- an idiomembranophone, or membranoidiophone. Has a stretched membrane and the whole thing vibrates. If you give an idiophone, originally making sound without a chamber and now give that instrument a chamber the sound increases and/or sound changes. Instrument he twirled, was metal and used the hollow piano as a chamber. Harmonic series: discovered by pythagoras, all notes get multiplied by 2.