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14 Cards in this Set
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Amplitude
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affects the decibel level (how loud or soft the sound is)
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Frequency
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affects the pitch (highness and lowness of a sound)
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Chordophones
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- violins, harps, guitars, have strings wich are plucked, bowed, or struck.
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Areophones
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brass or woodwinds = vibrating column of air.
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Membranophones
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skin stretched cross a frame.
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Idiophones-
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body of the instrument itself vibrates (bells, woodblocks, vibraphones)
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Chromatic scale
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twelve different pitches in ascending order
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Tonic pitch-
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in a c scale, the c is the tonic or “resting pitch”
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Dominant Pitch-
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the fifth scale degree (in the key of c, G is the dominant)
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Peremennost (alteration) –
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the oscillation between relative major and minor scales in Russian folk music.
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syncopation
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when accented or emphasized notes fall on weak beats, or in between beats.
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harmonic progression
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a series of chords or intervals that moves form tension (dissonance) toward resolution (consonance)
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diatonic
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within the key
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Atonal music
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music lacking a fixed tonal center
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