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26 Cards in this Set
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Rhythm
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The way musical time is organized, the arrangement or duration of long and short beats
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Rhythmic Piece
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Rhythm is the primary identity or prominent element of the piece
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Meter
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the use of beats that are accented or non accented
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What kind of meter are marches?
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1,2
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Beat
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the basic unit for measuring rhythm
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Accent
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the act of emphasizing one beat more than the other
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measure
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(or bar) one cycle of a metical pattern
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compound meter
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the divisible part of the meter is divisible by 3
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Simple Duple
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divisible by 2 (simple meter)
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Simple Triple
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divisible by 3 but not compound (simple meter)
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________ is the background and _______ is the foreground
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Meter
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Sincopation
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when movement or accent happens off the beat(a reactiont ot he beat)
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what indicates each measure?
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bar lines
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tempo
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the term for the speed of music- the rate at which the basic, regular beats of the meter follow one another
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scale
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a collection of pitches used by musicians
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octave
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the "interval" between a pair of duplicating notes, eight notes a part in the diatonic scale and 13 in the chromatic
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interval
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the distance or difference between any two pitches
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the diatonic scale
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the set of 7 pitches originally used in western music
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the chromatic scale
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a later version of the diatonic scale that includes 12 pitches
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Half step
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the smalles interval, the distance between any two successive note of the chromatic scale
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whole step
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2 half steps
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ties
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connect 2 notes of the same pitch which indicates they are played continuously (slurred)
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staccato
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played in a detached fashion
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triplets
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3 notes bracketed together with and mared with a 3 (three notes take exactly the same time that would be taken by 2)
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key signature
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specifies that certain sharps or flats are to be played throughout a peice
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scores
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music for 2 or more instruments or voices
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