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9 Cards in this Set
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HARMONY
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The simultaneous sounding of different pitches, or CHORDS.
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TEXTURE
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The blend of the various sounds and melodic lines occurring simultaneously in a piece of music.
*the word is adopted from textiles, where it refers to the weave of the various threads-loose or tight, even or mixed. |
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MONOPHON(Y)/ (IC)
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A musical texture involving a single melodic line, as in GREGORIAN CHANT; as opposed to POLYPHONY.
*Think the first line of "Row, row, row your boat", before the second person/echo comes in. |
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HOMOPHON(Y)/ (IC)
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A musical texture that involves only one melody of real interest, combined with chords or other subsidiary sounds.
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POLYPHON(Y)/ (IC)
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Musical texture in which two or more melodic lines are played or sung simultaneously; as opposed to HOMOPHONY or MONOPHONY.
*Polyphonic music automatically has harmony |
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COUNTERPOINT / CONTRAPUNTAL
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(1) POLYPHONY; strictly speaking, the technique of writing polyphonic music;
(2) The term A COUNTERPOINT is used for a melodic line that forms polyphony when played with other lines; (3) IN COUNTERPOINT means "forming polyphony". *the technique of writing two or more melodies that fit together. |
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IMITATIVE POLYPHONY
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a POLYPHONIC musical texture in which the various melodic lines use approximately the same themes; as opposed to NON-IMITATIVE POLYPHONY.
*"Row, Row, Row Your Boat", with all the echoes included. |
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NON-IMITATIVE POLYPHONY
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A POLYPHONIC musical texture in which the melodic lines are essentially different from one another; as opposed to IMITATIVE POLYPHONY.
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TONALITY / TONAL
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The feeling of centrality of one note (and its chord) to a passage of music; as oppsed to ATONALITY.
*focuses on an end pitch, leads up to it, climaxes at it. A homing point (often DO, in the DO, RE, MI scale). |
