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39 Cards in this Set
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Pitch
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Musical sound
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hertz
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cycles per second
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timbre
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color of sound, quality of voice
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resonant frequency
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the frequency that materials vibrate at
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harmony
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two or more pitches put together
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melody
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main line - series of pitches that are organized together
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rhythm
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how music moves through time
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beat
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fundamental base of rhythm
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meter
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organizing beats, how we put them together
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conjunct
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intervals close together
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disjunct
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inercals wide apart
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intercal
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distance between 2 pitches
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temp
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how fast music moves
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homophonic
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where harmony supports melody
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polyphonic
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parts are independent of each other
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monophonic
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only 1 melody , in unison
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chord
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a form of harmony, play different notes imultaneiously
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form
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how we organize the different sections of music
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ballad
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piece that tells a story
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celtic
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ancient irish came from central europe
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drued
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old school monks
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imported ballad
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foreign
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naturalized ballad
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adds american stuff
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native
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original american
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texture
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how different parts relate to each other
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refrain
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chorus of the song; part that repeats in a song
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offbeat
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where the emphasis is not on the main beat
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melissma
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one word but many notes
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polyrhyhms
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many rhythms happening at once
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text painting
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when music represents what is happening in text
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motif
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fragment of a piece
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ethnomusicologist
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someone who studies the ethnicity behind the music
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terraced music
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starts high then works its way down
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free rhythm
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where the rhythm and beat are in flux
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pentatonic
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all black keys
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tesutura
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the avg. range of a peice of music
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culturation
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mix of foreign influences into other music
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rennesainse
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rebirth from m.a. human power, indicidual thought
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guteral
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back of throat voal style
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