Music Appreciation Unit 1

Front 1

Accent >

Back 1

Some beats are louder than others

Front 2

sfz or sf (sforzando) ^

Back 2

an extra strong accent

Front 3

Adagio

Back 3

Very Slow

Front 4

Moderato

Back 4

medium speed

Front 5

Presto

Back 5

Fast

Front 6

Prestissimo

Back 6

Extremely fast

Front 7

Accelerando

Back 7

Gradually getting faster

Front 8

Ritardando

Back 8

Gradually getting slower

Front 9

Fermata

Back 9

A sustain on a certain not of indefinite length

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Whole Note/Rest

Back 10

4 counts

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Half Note/Rest

Back 11

2 counts

Front 12

Quarter Note/Rest

Back 12

1 count

Front 13

Eighth Note/Rest

Back 13

1/2 count

Front 14

Sixteenth Note/Rest

Back 14

1/4 count

Front 15

Thirty Second Note/Rest

Back 15

1/8 count

Front 16

Dotted notes/Rests

Back 16

A Dot placed after a note or rest increases its time value by 50%

Front 17

Ties

Back 17

Second note would not be played, but would be added to the time value of the first note, thus causing it to become one note that is 3 counts long

Front 18

Cut time

Back 18

Bottom number being a two indicates that a half note receives the value of one count or one beat

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Triplets

Back 19

Indicates that there will be three notes played in the same time as two`

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"Shall We Dance"

Back 20

The King & I

Front 21

“Matchmaker, Matchmaker” “If I were a rich Man”

Back 21

Fiddler on the Roof

Front 22

“Put on a Happy Face”

Back 22

Bye, Bye Birdie

Front 23

“On the Street Where You Live”

“I’ve Gotten Accustomed to Her Face”

“Get me to the Church on Time”

Back 23

My Fair Lady

Front 24

Working Definition of Music

Back 24

Sound organized in time

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Rhythm

Back 25

Temporal organization of sounds in music

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Beats

Back 26

Regularly spaced rhythmic pulses

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Tempo

Back 27

Speed of the beats

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Meter

Back 28

Regularly recurring patters

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Measure

Back 29

Groupings of beats that make up the reccurring pattern

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Syncopation

Back 30

Result of rhythms contradicting the underlying metric pulse, often by not lining up with the "strong" pulses that create meter

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Dynamics

Back 31

how loud or soft sounds are in music

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Wind instruments (definition)

Back 32

those in which sound is produced by a vibrating column of air

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String Instruments (definition)

Back 33

Those in which the sound is generated by a vibrating string

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Percussion instruments (definition)

Back 34

Instruments that produce a sound when struck or shaken