Feb 10, 2009 Volume 4 -- This is your brain on music, #4 (21)

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1. Striking a string displaces it, stretching it a bit, and its inherent ___ causes it to return toward its original position.
2. When a sound is generated on a piano, flute, or any other instrument -- including ____ instruments like drums and cowbells -- it produces many modes of _____ occurring ______.
3. The brain is so _____ to the overtone series that if we _______ a sound that has all of the components except the fundamental, the brain fills it in for us in a phenomenon called restoration of the missing fundamental.

A) simultaneously
B) vibration
C) percussion
D) encounter
E) resiliency
F) attuned

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E) resiliency
C) percussion
B) vibration
A) simultaneously
F) attuned
D) encounter

simultaneous:
existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent

vibration:
1.        the act of vibrating.
2.        the state of being vibrated.
3.        Physics.
a.        the oscillating, reciprocating, or other periodic motion of a rigid or elastic body or medium forced from a position or state of equilibrium.
b.        the analogous motion of the particles of a mass of air or the like, whose state of equilibrium has been disturbed, as in transmitting sound.
4.        an instance of vibratory motion; oscillation; quiver; tremor.
5.        a supernatural emanation, bearing good or ill, that is sensed by or revealed to those attuned to the occult.
6.        Often, vibrations. Informal. a general emotional feeling one has from another person or a place, situation, etc.: I usually get good vibrations from him.

percussion:
1.        the striking of one body against another with some sharpness; impact; blow.
2.        Medicine/Medical. the striking or tapping of the surface of a part of the body for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
3.        the striking of a musical instrument to produce tones.
4.        Music.
a.        the section of an orchestra or band comprising the percussion instruments.
b.        the percussion instruments themselves.
5.        a sharp blow for detonating a percussion cap or the fuze of an artillery shell.
6.        the striking of sound on the ear.
7.        the act of percussing.

encounter:
1.        to come upon or meet with, esp. unexpectedly: to encounter a new situation.
2.        to meet with or contend against (difficulties, opposition, etc.): We encounter so many problems in our work.
3.        to meet (a person, military force, etc.) in conflict: We will encounter the enemy at dawn.
–verb (used without object)
4.        to meet, esp. unexpectedly or in conflict: We were angry when we encountered, but we parted with smiles.
–noun
5.        a meeting with a person or thing, esp. a casual, unexpected, or brief meeting: Our running into each other was merely a chance encounter.
6.        a meeting of persons or groups that are in conflict or opposition; combat; battle: Another such encounter and we may lose the war.
7.        Psychology. a meeting of two or more people, as the members of an encounter group or a number of married couples (marriage encounter), conducted to promote direct emotional confrontations among the participants, esp. as a form of therapy (encounter therapy).

resiliency:
1.        the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.
2.        ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyancy.

attune:
make receptive or aware

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1E
2C B A
3F D