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39 Cards in this Set
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Pitch |
How high or low a sound is |
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Interval |
Distance between sound |
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Octave |
Distance of 8 |
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Tonality |
Has a center |
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Scale |
Collection of pitches |
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Diatonic |
Shift in tone at end |
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Penitonic |
5 notes, every know it is different distance apart |
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Chromatic |
Same distance between notes |
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Texture |
Ways describe and label things in a song |
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Monophonic |
Single sounds or pitch, 1 note, 1 person, 1 instrument 1 group on 1 note |
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Heterophonic |
Layered voices and instruments or many instruments |
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Homophonic |
1 melody and 1 harmony and 1 voice in multiple pitches |
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Polyphonic |
Many sounds, more than 1 melody |
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Beat |
Steady pulse |
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Duple meter |
Groups of 2, could walk to it |
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Triple meter |
Groups of 3, would look weird walking to it |
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Rhythm |
Sound organized into patterns that we can recognize |
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Dynamics |
How loud or soft |
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Tempo |
Fast or slow |
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Accelerondo |
Faster |
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Ritardando |
Slower |
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Accent |
To emphasize a beat |
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Melody |
Main part people usually sing |
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Motive |
Smallest amount you can recognize of song |
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Phrase |
Part of music you breathe between |
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Ostinato |
Repeated pattern |
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Harmony |
More than 1 note together |
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Ornamentation |
Decorations in a song |
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Trills |
Back and forth between two pitches |
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Vibrato |
Vibration of tone |
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Melisma |
When you the a sylabal of text and add a group of notes |
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A Capella |
Without instrument accompaniment |
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Vocables |
Sung word that has no definition |
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Accompaniment |
Something to go with song |
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Instrumentation |
Instruments with other sounds |
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Aerophone |
Air instruments |
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Chordophone |
String instrument |
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Membranophone |
Drum type instuments |
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Idiophone |
Things hit against other things |
