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.

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

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.

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.