Music Appreciation 1

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Music

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A succession of tones arranged in a specific rhythm.

Organized sound and silence in a specific time frame

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Utility Music

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Music used for a specific purpose.

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Absolute Music

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Music for its own sake.

Music that is free of extra musical association.

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Art Music

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Music intended for careful attention to its sound and expressive qualities.

Created for intellectual and psychological satisfaction.

Frequently performed in concert halls.

Commonly called "classical music".

Created with uncommon skill and devotion.

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Musical connotations

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association people make between music and a set of personal or cultural events or experiences.

ex> Wedding March, Pomp Circumstances, West Wing

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4 Properties of Sound

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Pitch, Volume,Duration, & Tone Color

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5 Elements of Music

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Rhythm, Pitch, Design, Expression, Historical/biographical (cultural context)

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Beat

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The regular pulse of music.

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Meter

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The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed beats.

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Rhythm

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the flow of music in time. (Patterns of long and short sounds and silences.)

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Syncopation

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The displacement of an accent so that it occurs where it is not normally expected or does not occur where it is expected.

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Polyrhythm

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Two or more rhythm patterns occurring simultaneously.

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Staff

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A set of horizontal lines and intermediate spaces used in notation to represent a sequence of pitches, in modern notation normally consisting of five lines and four spaces.

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Clef Signs

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one of many symbols that gives the pitch of any one of the five lines in the musical staff.

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Scale

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A series of pitches that proceeds upward or downward in a prescribed pattern.

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Melody

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A series of consecutive pitches that form a cohesive musical identity.

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Harmony

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The simultaneous sounds of several pitches, usually accompanying a melody.

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Chord

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Three or more notes sounded simultaneously.

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Arpeggio

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Three or more notes sounded simultaneously.

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Key

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-Tonal center- the centering of pitches around a particular pitch or scale or chord in a piece relationship to which everything else is heard.

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Modulation

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Changing the key or tonal center as the music progresses.

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Consonance

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(consonant) a group of sound that sounds agreeable or restful.

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Dissonace

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(dissonant) a group of sounds that sound disagreeable or restless.

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Texture

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How sound is layered.

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Monophonic

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Single melodic line without accompany by chords.

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Homophonic

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Single melodic line without accompany by chords.

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Polyphonic

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Two or more lines of equal importance played at the same time.
-counter point
-imitation

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Dynamics

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The amount of loudness in music

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Crescendo

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Getting louder

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Decrescendo

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Getting quieter

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Tempo

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The speed of the beats in a piece of music.

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Articulation

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The way the parts are played or enunciated.

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Staccato

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Detached, separated

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Legato

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Connected, smooth

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Vibrato

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slight rapid fluctuations of pitch

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Timbre

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Tone quality or tone color in music

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Fanfare

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a short piece of music played by trumpets and other brass instruments, frequently accompanied by percussion, usually for ceremonial purposes.

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Coda

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The concluding portion of a section or movement, usually giving the impression of an ending.

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Cadenza

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A section in which a soloist plays a free paraphrase of the themes of the work.

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Cadance

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A melodic or harmonic formula that gives a sense of phrase ending.

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Variety

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variation of instruments

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Variation

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a section of music in which the melody, harmony, or rhythm of a theme is repeated with some changes.

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Repetition

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sounds or sequences repeated

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starts with a Fanfare

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Star Wars –Williams

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"March-y"

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Farandole from L’Arlesienne-Bizet

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Man singing

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Simple Gifts-Copeland

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Guitar

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Concierto de Aranjuez 2nd movement –Rodrigo