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The age period of the Middle Ages. |
What is 450 - 1450 BCE? |
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The age period of the Renaissance? |
What is 1450 - 1600 BCE? |
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It is the relative highness or lowness when we hear in a sound. |
What is pitch? |
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pianissimo's abbreviation is pp. It means one thing. |
What is very soft? |
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piano's abbreviation is p. It means one thing. |
What is soft? |
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mezzo piano's abbreviation is mp. It means one thing. |
What is moderately soft? |
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mezzo forte's abbreviation is mf. It means one thing. |
What is moderately loud? |
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forte's abbreviation is f. It means one thing. |
What is loud? |
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fortissimo's abbreviation is ff. It means one thing. |
What is very loud? |
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The song may start loud, and become gradually softer. |
What is decrescendo or diminuendo? |
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The song may start soft, and become gradually louder. |
What is crescendo? |
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This third property can be described as bright, dark, brilliant, mellow, and rich. |
What is timbre? |
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Another name for tone color. |
What is timbre? |
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These three vocal ranges are usually sung by women. |
What is soprano, mezzo soprano, and alto? |
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Another term for contralto vocals. |
What is alto? |
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These three vocal ranges are usually sung by men. |
What is tenor, baritone, bass? |
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Known as the flow of music through time. |
What is rhythm? |
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A regular recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time. |
What is beat? |
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The organization of beats into regular groups. |
What is meter? |
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The speed or the pace of the beat. |
What is tempo? |
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This tempo is very slow and broad |
What is largo? |
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This tempo is very slow and solemn |
What is grave? |
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This tempo is slow |
What is adagio? |
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This tempo can best be called a walking pace |
What is adante? |
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This tempo is moderate. |
What is moderato? |
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This tempo is moderately fast. |
What is allegretto? |
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This tempo is fast. |
What is allegro? |
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This tempo is lively. |
What is vivace? |
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This tempo is very fast. |
What is presto? |
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This tempo is inhumanely fast. |
What is prestissimo? |
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In music, where an accented note appears in a least likely place. |
What is syncopation? |
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The writing system of music. |
What is notation? |
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This document shows the music for each instrumental and vocal arrangement. |
What is the score? |
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Another name for the music. |
What is melody? |
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a sequence of notes or chords comprising the close of a musical phrase |
What is a cadence? |
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in a smooth, flowing manner, without breaks between notes. |
What is legato? |
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with each sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others. |
What is staccato? |
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the use of simultaneous pitches (tones, notes), or chords. |
What is harmony? |
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harmonic set of two or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously. |
What is a chord? |
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a series of musical chords, or chord changes that "aims for a definite goal |
What is progression? |
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A stable set of chords, |
What is consonance? |
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An unable set of chords |
What is dissonance? |
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the move of a note or chord from dissonance |
What is resolution? |
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the pitch upon which all other pitches of a piece are hierarchically referenced |
What is tonic chord? |
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a chord composed of a root, major third, perfect fifth, and minor seventh. |
What is dominant chord? |
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The pitch or chord with the greatest stability |
What is tonality? |
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a piece is the tonic note and chord which gives a subjective sense of arrival and rest. |
What is key? |
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one whose third degree is a third above the tonic, |
What is major? |
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one whose third degree is a third below the tonic, |
What is minor? |
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the act or process of changing from one key to another. |
What is modulation? |
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the first scale degree of a diatonic scale and the tonal center or final resolution tone |
What is tonic? |
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the return of the A-section, where we hear the same or very similar music to the beginning of the piece. |
What is ternary form? |
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the music is divided into two sections: the A-section and B-section. The melody should be different in these two sections. |
What is binary form? |
