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40 Cards in this Set
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Polis
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Dominated Greek city-states during the Heroic Age
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Heroic Age
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Greek; named for the great homoeric epics, Iliad and Odyssey. Pottery is main surviving art form from this time.
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Protogeometric Amphora
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Amphora: a 2-handled vessel for liquid. Decorated with simple geometric designs: conecentric circles and semicircles, drawn with a compass.
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Archaic Period
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Kouros, kore, archaic smile Black figure and red figure vase painting.
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The Canon
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Written by Polykleitos about ideal male body proportions
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Kithara
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A larged plucked string instrument
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Aulos
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A double-piped wind insrument
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Pythagoras and Consonant Intervals
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Pythagoras discovered simple ratios underlying consonant intervals: 2:1=octave, 3:2-fifth, 4:3=fourth.
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Doctrine of Ethos
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music as emotion
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ethos
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the emotional power of music
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Epitaph of Seikilos
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inscribed on a tomb stele, one of the few surviving pieces of Greek music.
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Arch, valut, dome
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Arch: an efficient way to bear weight. Extended arch=barrel vault. Rotated arch=dome.
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Oculus
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in the pantheon; brings heavenly light into the dome
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Fresco
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means fresh. pigments applied to fresh plaster.
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Mosaic
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picture formed of many individual pieces called Tesserae.
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Music
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the art of organizing sound in time
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Rythm
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the controlledm ovement of music in time
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a beat
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the basic unit of length in musical time
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the beat
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the regular pulsation arising from a succession of beats
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duragion
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the length taken by a given musical event, usually measured in beats
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meter
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the group of beats into regular patterns of strong and weak beats
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free rhythm
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no recurring patterns
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metrical rhythm
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recurring patterns
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accent
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spcial emphasis on a beat
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melody
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a coherent sucession of single pitches
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pitch
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the highness or lowness of a tone
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interval
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the distance between two pitches
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shape/countour
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the direction a melody takes as it moves up and down
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range
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the distance between the melody's highest and lowest notes
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phrase
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a subdivision of the melody
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harmony
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relationships among simultaneously sounding pitches
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chord
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3 or more pitches sounding together
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consonance
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a concordant (blending) combination of musical pitches
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dissonance
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a discordant (clashing) combination of musical pitches
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texture
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the arrangement of various voice or instrument parts in relation to each other
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monophony
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a single melody
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polyphony
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2 or more simultaneous, independent melodies
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counterpoint
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the art of combining melodies
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homophony
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one main melody, with harmonic accompaniment
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timbre
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the distinctive tone quality or color of an instrument or group of instruments.
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