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11 Cards in this Set
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What is rhythm?
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the movement of music in time
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What is a beat?
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the agent by which time I perceived to be broken into regular intervals.
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What is meter?
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Organization of rhythm in time; the grouping of beats into larger regular patterns
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What is a measure/bar?
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rhythmic group or metrical unit that contains a fixed number of beats, divided on the musical staff by bar lines.
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What is a down beat?
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The first beat of the measure
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What is an upbeat?
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The last beat of the measure is known as the
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What is simple meter? What is compound meter?
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SM= Normal structure of the beat with nothing hardly in between.
CM= Normal beat with Notes played in between. |
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What is Melody?
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the line, or tune, in music. A succession of single pitches that we perceive as a recognizable whole.
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What is Range?
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the distance between the highest and lowest notes.
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What is contour?
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The overall shape of melodic line. It can move upward, downward, or remain static.
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Melodies can be characterized as moving largely by ________ or by ___________.
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step or by leap
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