Every musical instrument, needless to say, requires a long period of development - usually trial-and-error experimentation by generations of craftsmen - before arriving at ____ final perfected form.

The TROMBONE is the only brass instrument that does not use valves; ____ the player moves a curved tube, called a "slide," back and forth in order to change notes.

If music were purely a cultural invention, one might expect ancient music to be dramatically ____ modern music, given the huge cultural differences between then and now.

One way to reveal innate constraints on music perception is to show that certain musical stimuli are represented or remembered more accurately than others, independent ____ experience.

The flute has a very high, light and beautiful sound much like ____ of a bird.

Accompaniment is a musical line that is secondary ____ the melody; and accompaniment parts support the melody.

YouTube claims that not only does it return money directly to creators, but also that it has a ____ effect on music.

Unison is the sounding of the same note by two or more ____. In a unison piece of music, the players do not have different parts, but all play together.