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20 Cards in this Set
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formal analysis
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listening for musical structure, basic building blocks, and the ways in which they are combined
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musical process
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how each part work together (singing voice, grittiness of the electric guitar, and flow of the dance moves)
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Riff
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repeated patter that creates rhythm
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Hook
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a memorable musical phrase or riff
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Groove
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a term that evokes the canneled flow of "swinging" or "funky" or "phat" rhythms
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Timbre or Tone Color
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the quality of a sound
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"soundprint"
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helps one recognize who the artist is just by hearing the first few seconds
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Slap-back
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a distinctive short reverberation with few repetitions, often heard in the recordings of rockabilly artists like Elvis Presley
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lyrics
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words of a song
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Sampling
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a digital recording process wherein a sound source is recoded or "sampled" with a microphone, converted into a stream of binary numbers that represent the profile of the sound, quantized, and stored in the computer memory.
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formal analysis
|
listening for musical structure, basic building blocks, and the ways in which they are combined
|
|
|
musical process
|
how each part work together (singing voice, grittiness of the electric guitar, and flow of the dance moves)
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Riff
|
repeated patter that creates rhythm
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Hook
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a memorable musical phrase or riff
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Groove
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a term that evokes the canneled flow of "swinging" or "funky" or "phat" rhythms
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Timbre or Tone Color
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the quality of a sound
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"soundprint"
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helps one recognize who the artist is just by hearing the first few seconds
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|
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Slap-back
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a distinctive short reverberation with few repetitions, often heard in the recordings of rockabilly artists like Elvis Presley
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|
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lyrics
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words of a song
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|
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Sampling
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a digital recording process wherein a sound source is recoded or "sampled" with a microphone, converted into a stream of binary numbers that represent the profile of the sound, quantized, and stored in the computer memory.
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