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26 Cards in this Set
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String Family |
Guitar Cello Viola Violin Bass Bango |
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Woodwind |
Oboe Saxophone Flute Bassoon Clarinet |
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Brass |
Trombone French horn Trumpet |
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Persussion |
Xylophone Snare drum Triangle Marimba Piano |
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Why are these families in these places? Brass Percussion Woodwind Strings |
Vibration with lips Initiation with hitting the strings Vibration with wood reed Vibration with strings (making medium) |
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Name, draw and count 5 notes |
Whole note- 4 counts Half note- 4 counts Quarter notes- 1 count Eights notes- 1 and.... Sixteenth notes- 1 e and a... |
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Dotted half and quarter notes |
Dotted Half- 3 counts Dotted quarter- 1.5 count Note and a half of its value |
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Rests |
Whole, quarter, half, eighth and sixteenth |
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Define music |
The art or science of combining vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to produce beauty of form, harmony and expression of emotion Organizes sounds |
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Difference between music and sound |
Sounds don't have harmony Sounds aren't organized Don't necessarily understand ourselves through sounds Communicates across boundaries Music is an outlet of expression |
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What makes sound? |
Initiation- making the vibration Vibration- producing the movie Resonance- where the sound hits |
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Rhythm |
The arrangement of the length of notes and rests in a pattern. Pattern changes with the length and rests |
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Melody |
A series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole (the tune) |
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Harmony |
2 or more pitches sounding at the same time. Harmonious and consonant are pitches that work together. Dissonant harmonies clashes together |
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Acoustics (initiation) |
The physical properties of the sound producing media (and the space which in they are produced) |
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Dynamics |
Degrees of loudness or softness in music (p pp mp mf f) articularions/ accents |
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Timbre |
The quality of a sound that distinguishes it from another sound (tone color) single instrument qualities |
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Pitch |
Definite tones (the relatives of highness or lowness of a sound) |
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Meter |
The organisation of pulses into regular groups our beats (way of measuring pattern or of pulses) time signatures show the time of meter Ex.- 4/4 6/8 3/4 2/4 |
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Tempo |
the speed or Pace of the music |
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Key |
The tonal Center of music. (Sharp and flats) |
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Contour |
The shape of the melody (disjunct or conjunct. complex and rough or simple and smooth |
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Texture |
Differences in tone quality due to instrumentation and or voicing. Texture of groups of instruments by adding or subtracting instruments making the melody thick or thin. |
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Form |
The overall structure of the music (organization of the musical ideas in) example- ABA |
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Subdividing |
Counting the most specific beats possible (breaking down the counts to the smallest fraction) |
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Staff and barline |
The staff is the 5 lines that notes are on The lone that divides bars |
