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44 Cards in this Set
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Rhythm
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Pattern or sequence of notes and rests.
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Duration
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Relative value
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Tempo
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Speed of the music.
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Adagio
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Slow paced music.
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Moderato
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Medium paced music.
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Allegro
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Fast paced music.
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Meter
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Pattern of strong and weak pulses
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Time Signature
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no definition
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Melody
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Tune, Main Ideas, Thematic Material
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Registers
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High, Low altitudes
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Harmony
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Notes that sound simultaneously, accompaniment that goes along with the melody.
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Texture
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Interplay of voices.
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Monophonic
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One Voice
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Homophonic
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Melody with accompaniment, usually chords
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Polyphonic
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Two or more voices at the same time.
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Timbre
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Tone color. The quality of voices or musical instruments that distinguish it from each other.
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Dynamics
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Degrees of loudness, intensity or force in music
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Piano
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soft
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Forte
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strong
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Mezzo
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moderate
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Crescendo
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to become gradually louder
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Decrescendo
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to become gradually softer
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Terraced Dynamics
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Immediate contrasts
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Articulation
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degree of seperation. The way notes begin and end and connect. Attack and Release.
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Form
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The design or structure of a piece of music.
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Lyrics
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The words or text
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Opera
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Libretto
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Style
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Genre, type of music, characteristics that set it apart from other music: instruments, time periods… etc.
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Purpose
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no definition
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Purposes of Music
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Ceremonial, Recreational, and Artistic Expression
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Ceremonial
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(Purpose of music) Music created or performed for rituals or celebrations.
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Recreational
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(Purpose of music) Music for entertainment
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Artistic Expression
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(Purpose of music) Music created with the intent to express or communicate one's emptions, feelings, ideas and experience.
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Instrument Categories
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Strings, Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion, and Folk
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Strings
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Generally Chordophones
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Woodwinds
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Generally Aerophones or Idiophones?
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Brass
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Generally Aerophones or Idiophones?
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Percussion
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Includes Membranophones
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Folk
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Instrument Category
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Instrument categories based on how the sound is produced
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Aerophones, Idiophones, Membranophones, Chordophones
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Aerophones
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sound is produced by vibration of air.
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Idiophones
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Instruments made of naturally sonorous material
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Membranophones
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Sound is made by vibration of stretched Membrane.
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Chordophones
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Sound is made by the vibration of a string.
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