Feb 11, 2009 Volume 4 -- This is your brain on music, #5 (22)

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1. Petr sent the output of these electrodes to a small ______, and played back the sound of the owl's neurons through a loudspeaker.
2. But merely copying the overtone profile, while it can create a sound ______ of the actual instrument, yield a rather pale copy.
3. Timbre was what defined rock for Pierce. And it was a ______ to both of us.
4. New musical instruments have been invented so that composers might have a larger _____ of ______ colors from which to draw.

A) timbral
B) amplifier
C) palette
D) revelation
E) reminiscent

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B) amplifier
E) reminiscent
D) revelation
C) palette
A) timbral

timbre：
the character or quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct from its pitch and intensity

amplify:
increase the volume of (sound), esp. using an amplifier
• increase the amplitude of (an electrical signal or other oscillation).
• cause to become more marked or intense
• Genetics make multiple copies of (a gene or DNA sequence).
• enlarge upon or add detail to (a story or statement)

palette:
a thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colors.
• the range of colors used by a particular artist or in a particular picture
• figurative the range or variety of tonal or instrumental color in a musical piece
• (in computer graphics) the range of colors or shapes available to the user.

revelation:
1 a surprising and previously unknown fact, esp. one that is made known a dramatic way
• the making known of something that was previously secret or unknown
• used to emphasize the surprising or remarkable quality of someone or something
2 the divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of something relating to human existence or the world

reminiscent:
tending to remind one of something
• suggesting something by resemblance
• (of a person or their manner) absorbed in or suggesting absorption in memories

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B) amplifier
D) revelation
D) revelation
C) palette
A) timbral