Music Ec-4

Front 1

Duration

Back 1

How long a sound is or how short a sound is

Front 2

Whole note

Back 2

Longest tone in music. 4 equal counts

Front 3

Half note

Back 3

Shorter tone in music with 2 equal counts

Front 4

Quarter note

Back 4

Even shorter tone with one count

Front 5

rest

Back 5

where no music is played or sung

Front 6

rhythm

Back 6

sound organized in time

Front 7

steady beat

Back 7

beat is given at the same time 1,2,1,2,1,2,

Front 8

measure

Back 8

seperates beats into groups

Front 9

strong beat

Back 9

one loud beat in a series of beats

Front 10

metronome

Back 10

instrument used to manage beat regularity

Front 11

meter

Back 11

indicates how many beats per measure the composer desires

Front 12

Melody

Back 12

A combination of high and low sounds together

Front 13

musical theme

Back 13

a pattern in music that occurs several times thoroughout a piece of music

Front 14

note

Back 14

symbol of sound

Front 15

musical staff

Back 15

the five lines and five spaces on which all music is written

Front 16

ttreble

Back 16

staff for high notes of sounds

Front 17

treble clef

Back 17

symbol for high notes

Front 18

bass clef

Back 18

symbol for low notes

Front 19

sobrano

Back 19

high voice

Front 20

alto

Back 20

mid-high voice

Front 21

tenor

Back 21

male mid voice

Front 22

baritone

Back 22

mid-low male voice

Front 23

bass

Back 23

very low voice or sound

Front 24

Pitch

Back 24

noise cause by vibration high-fast low-slow

Front 25

scale

Back 25

do, re, me, fa, so, la, ti, do

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steps

Back 26

sound moves from one note to another without skipping a tone

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repeated tone

Back 27

tone that does not change its pitch

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leaps

Back 28

pitch moves up and down ex. jingle bells

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flat

Back 29

sound moves down a half step

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sharp

Back 30

sound moves up a half step

Front 31

key change

Back 31

music change from one flat or sharp to another

Front 32

form

Back 32

how music is written

Front 33

melody pattern

Back 33

a pattern heard several times during a song

Front 34

rondo

Back 34

musical form that has different sections. chorus is repeated after each section

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repeat sign

Back 35

handy symbol that tells the musicianwhen to go back and play or sing a passage again

Front 36

dynamics

Back 36

how loud or soft the music should be

Front 37

cresendo

Back 37

symbol stating music shall gradually get louder

Front 38

tempo

Back 38

speed of the beat

Front 39

staccato

Back 39

notes are detached or separated

Front 40

woodwind

Back 40

instuments with wood clarinet oboe saxophone basson flute piccolo

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brass

Back 41

instruments made with tubes of brass

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strings

Back 42

instruments made with strings, violin,viola,cello, string bass

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timbre

Back 43

each instrument has its own voice

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mood

Back 44

feeling that a piece of music creates for the listener

Front 45

minor key

Back 45

bluesy or sad music

Front 46

ballads

Back 46

songs that tell stories

Front 47

solo

Back 47

one instrument or voice production

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chorus

Back 48

a large group singing

Front 49

capella

Back 49

voice sung without musical accompaniement

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harmony

Back 50

two or more different tones being played or sung together

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texture

Back 51

how one voice or instrument alone sounds different from other voices or instuments

Front 52

musical conversation

Back 52

one voice asks a question in song and the other(s) answer it

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Texas our texas

Back 53

state song