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13 Cards in this Set
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What is pitch
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The highness or lowness of a tone
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what is form?
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The design or structure of a musical composition.
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What is tempo
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The speed or pace of a given piece of music.
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What is instrumentation
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the combo of musical instruments employed in a compostion,
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What is the texture?
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the way the melodies, rhythms, harmonies are combined in a composition.
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What is beat?
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the basic rythmic unit or underlying pulse.
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What is dynamics
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variation and gradation in volume of musical sound
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What is timbre
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Characteristics sound quality of an instument or a voice
ex: soulful |
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What are Lyrics?
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A set of words that make up a song
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What is harmony?
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The stimultaneous combination of tones or chord progression
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What is rhythm?
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the organization of time in music creating patterns of short and long notes
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What is melody?
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A particular sequence of pitches in a specific rhythm
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What is unison?
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A bunch of people singing the same note.
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