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28 Cards in this Set
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Pitch; Dynamic |
highness/lowness of a sound loudness/softness of a sound |
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Tone Color |
quality of sound (Timbre) |
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Stravinsky |
Firebird Suite |
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Ellington
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C-jam blues Big Band solo solo w/accomp. |
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SATB |
1. Suprano 2. Alto 3. Tenor 4. Base |
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Rythmn |
flow of music in time |
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Tempo |
speed |
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Meter |
subdivides music; groups beats |
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Notation |
how music is written |
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Melody |
group of individual tones grouped together to make a harmonious sound |
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Melody example |
Harold Arlen, "Over the Rainbow" w/ Judy Garland vocals |
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Harmony |
refers to the way in which cords are constructed and how they follow each other |
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Progression |
series of chords |
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Consonance |
a combination of tones that is stable |
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Dissonance |
combination of tones that is unstable |
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Triad |
simplest most basic chord consisting of three tones |
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Broken Chords-Arpeggios |
occurs when individual tones of a chord are sounded one after another |
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Broken Chords- Arpeggios example |
Chopin Prelude in e minor for piano |
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Key |
involves a central tone but also the central chord and scale. a keynote can go the 12 tones in an octave |
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Scale |
basic pitches of a piece of music arranged from low to high or high to low |
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Major Scale |
consists of seven tones familiar do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do |
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Minor Scale |
consists of seven tones differs from major scale in the pattern of intervals |
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Interval |
space between notes |
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Modulation |
change of key center |
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Texture |
at any moment in a piece of music one may bear |
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Polyphonic |
several melodies simultaneously ex. "Row Your Boat" Rounds |
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Homophonic |
single melody supported by harmony ex. singer and guitar |
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Monophonic |
one melody ex. Bizet, The Woman of Arles, "L'Arlesienne" Suite No. 2: Farandole |
