Music Vocabulary Chapters 3-4

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without tone

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atonal

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the notes or chords ending a section of music with a feeling of conclusiveness

Back 2

cadence

Front 3

the shape of a piece of music

Back 3

form

Front 4

a composition written systematically in imitative polyphony, usually with a single main theme

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fugue

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a general category of music determined partly by the number and kind of instruments or voices involved, and partly by its form, style, or purpose

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genre

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having to do with chords, or the vertical aspect of musical texture

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harmony

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a musical texture that involves only one melody of real interest, combined with chords or other subsidiar sounds

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homophony

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a ployphinic musical texture in which the various melodic lines use approximately the same themes

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imitative

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one of the modes of the diatonic scale,oriented around C as the tonic; characterized by the interval between the first and third notes containing 4 semitones

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major mode

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the aspect of music having to do with the succession of pitches

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melody

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one of the modes of the diatonic scale, oriented around A as the tonic: characterized by the interval between the first and the third notes containting 3 semitones

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minor mode

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changin key within a piece

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modulation

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a musical texture involving a single melodic line

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monophony

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a short fragment of melody or rhythm used in constructing a long section of music

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motive

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a musical texture in which the melodic lines are essentially different from one another

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non-imitative

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a musical texture in which two or more melodic lines are played or sung simultaneously

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polyphony

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a section of a melody or a tune

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phrase

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ina melody, a series of fragments identical except for their placement at successively higher or lower pitch levels

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sequence

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the combination of qualities that make a period of art, a composer, a group of works, or an individual work distinctive

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style

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the blend of the various sounds and melodic lines occuring simultaneously in a piece of music

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texture

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the basic subject of a piece of music

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theme

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the feeling of centrality of one note to a passage of music

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tonality

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a simple, easy singable melody that is coherent and complete

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tune