Music Literature

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Music

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The art of sound and time that changes from culture to culture

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Timbre

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Tone color

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Pitch

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High vs. Low

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Dynamics

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Loud and soft

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Frequency

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Level of sound

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How many cycles in music?

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440/sec.
Hertz

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Amplitude

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The number that goes with music-amplifer-TURN IT TO 11!

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Forte

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Strong

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Piano

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Soft

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Issimo

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the most

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Mezzo

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medium

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Mezzo piano

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medium soft

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Piuforte

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more strong/loud

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Menoforte

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less loud

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20,000 hz

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the amount of sound the musical ear can hear

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Subito

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sudden changes in dynamics

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Crescendo

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gradually getting louder

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Descendo (decrease) or Diminuendo (Dim)

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gradually getting softer

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Tone color

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Produced in complex ways

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Duration

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Length of time we hear in minutes, seconds, microseconds

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Rhythm

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Main driving force in music.
The way musical time is organized by durations of various magnitudes.

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Rhythmic

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music w/ simple patterns
one two/one repeating, metrical

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Beats

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provide basic unit of measurement for time in music

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Meter

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Any recurring pattern of strong and weak beats such as ONE tow and ONE two three
strong/weak pattern repeated

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Syncopation

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Accents can be displaced

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Tempo

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Speed of music
60/60 water beats per minute
metronome marks

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Adagio

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Slow

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Andante

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on slow side, not too slow

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Moderato

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moderate tempo

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Allegretto

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On fast side, not too fast

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Allegro

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fast

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Presto

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very fast

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Largo, lento, grave

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slow, very slow

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Larghetto

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somewhat faster than largo

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Andantino

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somewhat faster than andante

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Vivace, vivo

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lively

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Molto allegro

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faster than allegro

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Prestissimo

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very fast indeed

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Accelerando

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gradually getting faster

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Ritardando

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gradually getting slower

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Piulento

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a hold of indefinte length on a certain note or rest

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atmepo

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back to main tempo

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Scale

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pool of pitches for making music
twelve pitches for most music

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Interval

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distance between pitches

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Ocatve

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"Duplicate" earlier pitch
ten octaves

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Diatonic scale
chromatic scale

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Western music-7 pitches
12 pitches-b and w set of keys on piano

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Half-step

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Semitone, distance between any two successive notes of the Chromatic scale

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Whole step

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Whole tone, equilvalent to two half steps

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Hemiola

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Placing of two subdivisons of a beat placed agaisnt each other

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Melody

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An organzied series of pitches

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Tune

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Simple, easy
Easily singable

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Sequence

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Two or more different pitch levels

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Cadence

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End of phrase

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Motive

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meloday
all music has motive
distinctive fragments

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theme

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rhythmic idea
impression
key

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Harmony

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chord=e or more notes

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Consonance

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with sounds

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Disonance

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Dissonant=agaisnt sounds

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Resolved

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resolution

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Texture

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Kind of harmony or accompiment that goes w/ a melody

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Monophony

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mono-phonic
one sound-1 melody

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Heterophony

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melody and var.
minor variaton

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Homophony

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same sound

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Polyphony

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Polyphonic
many more than one important melody

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Two types of polyphony

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Non-imitative
Imitative