Intro To Music Vocab

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pitch

Back 1

quality of being high or low

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melody

Back 2

meaningful group of pitches

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range

Back 3

distance between the lowest and highest notes of a melody

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scale

Back 4

collection of pitches from DO to DO

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octave

Back 5

8 steps between notes (DO RE MI FA SOL LA TI DO)

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conjuct

Back 6

melody moved by steps

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disjunct

Back 7

melody moved by leap

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tonality

Back 8

the pull towards DO

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tonic

Back 9

DO(the key note)

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texture

Back 10

how you treat melodies

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monophonic

Back 11

one melody by itself

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homophonic

Back 12

one melody with accompaniment

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polyphonic

Back 13

two melodies at the same time

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counterpoint

Back 14

skill of writing polyphonic music

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phrase

Back 15

part of a melody

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cadence

Back 16

marks off phrases (musical punctuation) resting stop

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dynamics

Back 17

volume

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dynamics:

piano

Back 18

soft

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forte

Back 19

loud

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mezzo piano

Back 20

medium soft

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mezzo forte

Back 21

medium loud

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pianissimo

Back 22

really soft

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fortissimo

Back 23

really loud

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crescendo

Back 24

gradually getting louder

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decrescendo

Back 25

gradually getting softer

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****higher/lower are different from louder/softer

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form

Back 27

structure of music

1) repetition

2) contrast- change

3) variation- keep some same change others

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binary form

Back 28

musical structure in 2 parts

A,A

A,B

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ternary form

Back 29

musical structure in 3 parts

A,A,A

A,B,A-popular

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chord

Back 30

3 or more notes sounding together

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harmony

Back 31

how chords move

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types of chords:

major-

minor-

consonance-

dissonance-

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happy sounding chords

sad sounding

stable(pleasing chord)

clash

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rhythm

Back 33

how music moves in time

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beat

Back 34

regular recurring pulse (building block of rhythm)

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meter

duplemeter

triplemeter

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the organization of beats into groups

beats fall into a group of 2

fall into a group of 3

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accent

Back 36

a beat that has empasis

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downbeat

Back 37

accented beat

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syncopation

Back 38

unexpected accent

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ragtime

Back 39

a lot of syncopation

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tempo:

largo-

andante-

moderato-

allegro-

presto-

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the speed of the beat

very slow

slow

moderate

fast

very fast

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theme

Back 41

central melody in an extended work

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sequence

Back 42

part of a melody repeated at a different pitch

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motive

Back 43

a unifying cell of music

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accelerando

Back 44

gradually get faster

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ritardando

Back 45

gradually get slower

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timbre

Back 46

tone color (the particular sound of an instrument/voice )

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chamber music

Back 47

music performed by a small group

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2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

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duo/duet

trio

quartet

quintet

sextet

septet

octet

nonet

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**string quaret

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2 violins, viola, cello

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inversion

Back 50

melody upside down

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retrograde

Back 51

melody backwards

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retrograde inversion

Back 52

melody backwards and upside down

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augmentation

Back 53

stretch music out so it takes twice as long

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diminution

Back 54

compressed music takes twice as long