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24 Cards in this Set
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Harmony
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to the way chords are constructed and how they follow each other.
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Chord
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What is part the main part of harmony?
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Chords
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Three or more (different pitch level) sounded at once simultaneously.
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Consance
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A stable tone combination.
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Resolution
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moving from dissonance to consonance.
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Triad
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has 3 tones, to indicate that the three tones can be played at one time.
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Home key/ Tonic (tonal center)
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central tone (pitch level also implied) of a melody or larger piece of music toward which the other tones gravitate & on which the meody or piece usually ends.
(1 tone or 1 pitch which the melody usually end on the 1 tone.) |
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scale
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is made up of the basic pitches of a piece of music arranged in order from low to high or high to low.
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major scale
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has 2 kinds of intervals in a specific pattern.
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Dissonance
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An unstable tone combination.
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progression
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a melody may be harmonized in serval musically convincing ways.
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half step
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the smallest interval
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whole step
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twice as large as the half step.
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key
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combination of the central tone (pitch level).
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tonic chord
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Is the main chord of a piece the most stable and conclusive
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modulation
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A shift from one key to another within the same piece.
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monophonic texture
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texture of a single unaccompanied melodic line.
(1 sound) |
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polyphonic texture
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(many sounds) two or more melodic lines of relatively equal interest produces texture.
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homophonic texture
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when we hear one main melody accompanied by chords, the texture.(2 different sounds)
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form
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music is the orangization of musical elements in time.
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Style
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characteritic way of treating the various musical elements (meoldy,rhythm,tone color,dynamics,harmony, texture, and from.
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William Grant Still
1.Born 2.Lived 3.period in history 4. what is he famous for & Year? |
1.Woodville, Mississippi
2. Little Rock, Arkansas 3. 1895-1978 4.being the 1st Black man to conduct a major symphony orchestra.(1931 |
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Aaron Copland
1.Born 2.famous for? 3. period in History 4.lived |
1.Brooklyn, NY
2. being a leading composor 3.1900-1990 4. France |
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texture
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a charateristic of music combining aspects of the elements melody, harmony and rhythm, and best described in terms of :
1.the # of layers of sound 2. the kinds of layers present 3. the relationships b/t the layers. |
