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23 Cards in this Set
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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
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cadence
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the shape of a piece of music
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form
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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
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