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26 Cards in this Set
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- Back
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Rythem
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- organization of time in music
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Measured music began around
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- 1150
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Notation
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- how music is written down
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Meter
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- regualar grouping of the beat or pulse of music
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Harmony
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- two or more pitches being sounded simaltaneously
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Melody
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- has a "zin" quality
- series of notes in order that are recognizable |
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**Tone Color
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Meters are grouped in
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- twos or threes
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Tempo
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- how fast or slow something is played
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Most historians agree that
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- music started with rythem
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There are close relations between
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- patterns and doing work
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Scale
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- an arrangement of pitches that ascends and descends fixed
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Interval
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- the distance from one pitch to another
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Half step
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- the smallest interval in the music system
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Descant
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- when two melodies more in opposite directions
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Organum
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- earliest form of harmony
- one melody doubled at a constant |
doubled
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chord
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- three or more tones being sounded simultaneously
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Roots
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- the lowest sounding tone of a chord
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false bass
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- form of harmony where one pitch is held underneath the two parts
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Dissonace
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- an unpleasing sound
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consance
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- a pleasing sound
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Strings
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- Violin
- Viola - Cello - Double Bass |
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Woodwinds
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- Flute
- Clarinet - Saxophone - Oboe - Bassoon |
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Brass
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- Trumpet
- French horn - Trumbone - Tuba |
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Percussion
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- Battery
- Bass Drum - Snare Drum - Crash Cymbals |
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percussion pitched
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- Glockenspiel
- Chimes - xylophone - timpani - Harp |
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