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69 Cards in this Set
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Pitch |
Single tone |
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Durations |
Length of tone |
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Loudness |
Volume |
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Tone quality |
Sweet, ragged. Emotional context |
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Texture |
Density of sound |
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Form |
The structure of a composition |
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Register |
Where the instrument is placed |
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Range |
Number of pitches |
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White noise |
The entire range together |
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Scales |
Organization of sound |
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Tonality |
Home tone, key signature through sharps and flats |
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Chord |
Three or more simultaneous sounds |
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Tempo |
Speed of notes |
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Pulse |
The beat or the tempo |
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Duple meter |
Two or four counts in a meausure |
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Triple meter |
Three counts in a measure |
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Nonmetric |
No pulse, weak or irregular pulse |
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Mixed meter |
7/4 time |
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Syncopations |
Accent on the off beat |
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Dynamics |
Soft to loud |
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Accent |
Where the emphasis is |
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Timbres |
Tone quality-light dark bright etc |
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Variety |
Theme that is different that what is played |
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Unity |
Exact or modified repetition of theme |
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Contrast |
Departure |
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Repetition |
Same song, second verse |
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Forward energy |
Feeling of moving one note to the next |
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Tension |
Created with distance volume, and texture |
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Resolution |
Release of tension- consonance |
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Dissonance |
Notes that create uncomfortable feeling |
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Consonance |
Repose, relaxation |
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Instability |
Created by departures, adds tension |
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Stability |
Created by returns, adds comfort |
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Modulation |
Changing in key signatures |
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Genre |
Type of category of music |
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32 bar song form |
Hymns, folk songs etc aaba |
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Verse/chorus/verse |
Refrain:folk songs, many pop James Tyler fire and rain |
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Twelve bar blues |
A form used for singing and playing in the blues style |
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Cadences |
Points if repose, release of tension,forward energy |
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Open cadences |
Gives a feeling of temporarily stopping |
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Closed cadences |
Convey a strong sense of finality |
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Motive |
A small pattern that is part of a musical theme I.e. Beethoven's fifth harmony |
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Minstrel shows |
Rural folk tradition and urban composed tradition combined. Lively syncopated, humorous. Written by white Americans performing in black face, caricature of "Negro" way of live |
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Tin Pan Alley 1850-1950 |
Street in NYC where publishers are located. Types of songs are sentimental, syncopated, L. American, nonsense, and show tunes. Publishers hacked what was popular 32 bar verse form |
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Musicals |
Unites music and drama |
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Tin Pan Alley Composers |
George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers |
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Modern Musical Composers |
Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Billy Joe Armstrong |
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Vaudeville and Broadway Revue |
Singers,dancers, comedians, child performers, animal acts, dramatic sketches |
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Broadway Revue |
Variety show:follies, scandals, and vanities |
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Film, Radio, Recordings |
Film music:1927 the jazz singer, movie musicals: helped people escape from worries of the great depression |
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Radio recordings |
1920's blues ballads dances and jazz swing bands hit song 'lucky strike hit parade' |
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What is popular music? |
Known by a wide variety of people, cross cultural |
Sorry by Justin Beiber |
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Colonial Period |
Religious and concert music acceptable, "Entertainment" music might be against the law. Earliest popular music composer for amateurs to sing and enjoy at home |
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Post Revolutionary War |
Songs from British Isles, Traditional Scottish/Irish airs, hymns/religious music, German art music, simplified music solos |
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19th century Popular Music |
Minstrel songs, plantation songs, sentimental/dramatic songs; showed blacks as people who experience pain sorrow, and love |
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Henry Russell |
Emigrated to USA to Gr. Britain; has a sense of what would be popular |
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Stephen Foster |
Trained/knowledgeable in art music "speak to the american people in song |
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Country Music |
Hillbilly, Cowboy and Western Swing, Bluegrass |
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Latin American Folk/Popular Music |
European style harmony, simple and repetitive, melodies have a limited range, little or no improvisation except in salsa and jazz |
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Traditional/Central S. American Music |
Instruments:aerophones(flutes, panpipes, ocarinas) idiophoned/membranophones. Folk popular from mestizo music. Spanish tunes/words combined with native dances |
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Cajun/Zydeco |
French immigrants from Acadia settled in Louisiana bayou and swamps. According added in 1920's |
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Black musicians from Cajun |
Cajun style combined with blues (accordian, electric guitar, bass, drums, saxes, washboard) |
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Tex-mex(Mexican based) |
Conjunto:combo featuring accordian, bajo sexto. Ranchero: country western song;sentimental, corridor:traditional story song/ballad |
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Mariachi(mexican based) |
Traditional mexican folk music, 20th century. Example: restaurants, performance halls, parades, folk festivals,weddings, parties. Violens folk harp small guitar guitarron, trumpets, voices used sometimes |
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Bossa Nova(Latino music) |
Pop jazz style from Brazilian samba. Late 1950's by Stan getz and Charlie Byrd. "The girl from Ipanema", " Desafinado", and "Corcovado" |
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Brazilians |
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto |
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Salsa |
Dance music, Afro-Cuban began in 1970's and not a specific genre, began in NYC, Cuban/Puerto Rican musicians. |
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Famous salsa composer |
Tito Puente-band leader, Celia Cruz-singer |
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Reggae |
Mid 1950's, urban slums, Jamaican style R&B=ska. Placed issues on socioeconomic issues |
Bob Marley |
