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11 Cards in this Set
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pitch tonal center |
– musical note, determined by its frequency – the home pitch of a scale or harmony |
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scale melody motive or phrase |
– a collection of pitches, organized around a tonal center or “home” – a succession of pitches that forms a musical idea; a tune – short rhythmic or melodic ideas that makes up the larger melody of a musicalperformance |
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rhythm beat tempo measure |
- the organization of the duration of musical sounds – a regular pulsation either implied or articulated in a musical performance – the speed of the beat in a music performance – a unit of time corresponding to a set number of beats |
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meter duple meter triple meter |
– the grouping of a specific number of beats – 2/4 or 4/4 time signature – 3/4 time signature |
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timbre improvisation instrumentation |
– the sound quality of instrument, produced by fundamental pitch and overtones – the process of creating music as it is performed – the combination of instruments and/or voices used in a music performance |
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ornamentation portamento |
– an embellishment of a melody or musical sound – a continuous progression from one pitch to another, gliding through all the pitchesin between |
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interval octave harmony or chord |
–the space between individual pitches – an interval of two pitches with the same name, but sounding at different frequencies, onehigher than the other – a blending of three or more different pitches |
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arpeggio chord progression |
– a chord whose pitches sound in succession rather than simultaneouslychord progression - chords that make sense with a melody and its tonal center |
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form text, lyrics text setting |
– the underlying structure of a musical performance over time – words written to music – the number of pitches per syllable of sung text |
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syllabic text setting melisma/melismatic riddim |
– one pitch per syllable of sung text3 – more than one pitch per syllable of sung text - the instrumental “groove” created to accompany reggae songs: includes the repeating rhythmic and melodic patterns of the bass, drum, and other instruments |
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engine room pizzicato clave rhythm call-and-response |
– the percussion section of the steel band – plucking the strings of a violin (or other bowed instrument) with the finger – a syncopated rhythmic pattern, played on the claves, in rumba, son, salsa, etc. – melodic exchange between voices or instruments |