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56 Cards in this Set
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Timbre or Tone color |
Propertied of sound include pitch, duration, and volume (striking difference in the sound quality of music instruments) |
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Instrument |
Generates vibrations and transmits them into the air |
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Soprano and alto |
for female voices |
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Tenor and bass |
for male voices |
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aerophones |
such as flutes or horns, trumpet |
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Chordophones |
violins or guitars, piano |
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Idiophones |
an instrument the whole of which vibrates to produce a sound when struck, shaken, or scraped, such as a bell, gong, or rattle. |
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Membranophones |
(drums or kazoo) |
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the four family of Western instruments are |
Strings, Woodwinds, bass and percussion |
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Chamber music |
is ensemble music for small groups with one player per part |
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Standard chamber ensembles include |
String quartets, piano trios and brass quintets. |
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Orchestra |
feature over one hundred players |
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Most bands-wind, marching, jazz, rock- |
feature a core of winds and percussion |
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Tempo |
is a rate of speed, or pace of the music. |
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Dynamics |
describe the volume, or how loud or soft the music is played. |
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moderato |
moderate |
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allegro |
fast (cheerful) |
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vivace |
lively |
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presto |
very fast |
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grave |
solemn ( very, very slow) |
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largo |
broad (very slow) |
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adagio |
quite slow |
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andante |
a walking pace |
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pianissimo |
(pp) Very Soft |
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Piano |
(P) soft |
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mezzo piano |
(mp) moderately soft |
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mezzo forte |
(mf) moderately loud |
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forte |
(f) Loud |
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fortissimo |
(ff) Very loud |
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crescendo |
(<) growing louder |
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decrescendo or diminuendo |
(>) growing softer |
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Binary form (A-B) and ternary form (A-B-A) |
are basic structures in muisc |
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Sequence |
results when a motive is repeated at a different pitch |
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Form |
is the organizing principal in music its basic elements are repetition, contrast and variation |
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Strophic Form |
Common in songs, features repeated music for each stanza of text. |
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through- composed form |
there are no large repeated sections. |
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Ostinato |
is the repetition of a short melodic, rhythmic or harmonic pattern. |
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Monophony |
A single voice or line without accompanient |
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Polyphony |
(many voiced) two or more different melodic lines are combined. |
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Imitation |
when a melodic idea is presented in one voice , then restated in another. |
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Canons and rounds |
are two types of strictt |
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Microtones |
which are intervals smaller than half steps. |
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Diatonic scale |
consists of seven whole and half steps whose patterns form major and minor scales |
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Chromatic scale |
is made up of all twelve half steps |
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Phase
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the units that make up a melody
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Cadences
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phrases end in resting places
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Conjunct
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connected intervals
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Disjust
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while one that moves by leaps
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Rhythm
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is what moves music forward in time
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Meter
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marked off in measure (or bars) organizes the beats (the beat units) in music.
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simple meters
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duple, triple, and quadruple - are the most common each beat is divided into two.
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Compound meters
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divide each beat into three rather than two.
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Nonmetric
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with an obscured pulse.
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Harmony
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describes the vertical aspects of music how notes pitches sound together
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Active Chords
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Dominant and Subdominant
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Heterophony
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in which several musicians sing or play the same line (as in monophony)
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