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Music App. Test #1
Basics of music/terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The relative highness or lowness we hear in a sound | Pitch |
| 4 main properties of musical sounds | Pitch, Dynamics, tone color, duration |
| A regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time. | Beat |
| The organization of beats into regular groups | Meter |
| A set of five horizonal lines | Staff |
| This shows the meter of a piece | Time signature |
| A series of single white notes that add up to a recognizeable whole. | Melody |
| A combination of three or more tones sounded at once | Chord |
| Indicates the key the music is to be played in | Key signature |
| A shift from one key to another within the same piece | Modulation |
| The three basic musical textures are... | Monophonic, Homophonic, and Polyphonic |
| The organization of musical elements in time | Form |
| A characteristic way of treating ythe various musical elements | Style |
| What are the six broad categories of western music? | String, Woodwind, Brass, Percussion, Keyboard, and Electronic |
| Name some examples of instuments in the string category: | guitar,violin |
| Name some examples of instuments in the woodwind category: | flute, clarinet |
| Name some examples of instuments in the brass category: | trumpet, trombone |
| Name some examples of instuments in the percussion category: | bass drum, cymbals |
| Name some examples of instuments in the keyboard category: | organ , piano |
| Name some examples of instuments in the electronic category: | synthesizer |
| Vibrations that are transmitted, usually through the air, to the eardrum, which sends impulses to the brain | Sound |
| The relative highness or lowness of a sound | Pitch |
| Sound that has a definite pitch or frequency | Tone |
| Interval between two tones in which the higher tone has twice the frequency of the lower one | Octave |
| "Distance" in pitch between any two tones | interval |
| Degrees of loudness or softness in music | Dynamics |
| Emphasis of a note which may result from its being louder, longer or higher in pitch than the notes near it | Accent |
| Quality of a sound that distinguishes one instrament or voice from another. | Tone Color (timbre) |
| Describe tone color | Bright, Dark, Brilliant, Mellow, Rich |
| Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time | Beat |
| Pattern of two beats to the measure | Duple meter |
| Organization of beats into regular groups | Meter |
| Rhythmic group set off by bar linees containing a fixed number of beats | Measure |
| Aparatus that produces ticking sounds or flashes of light at any desired constant speed | Metronome |
| Pattern of 4 beats to the measure | Quadruple meter |
| Ordered flow of music through time; the pattern of duration of notes and silences in music | Rhythm |
| Accenting of a note an unexpected time, as between two beats or on a weak beat. | Syncopation |
| Basic pace of the music | Tempo |
| Pattern of 3 beats to the measure | Triple meter |
| In notation of rhythm, an arc between two notes of the same pitch indicating that the second note should not be played but should be added to the duration of the first | Tie |
| Two numbers, one above the other, appearing at the begining of a staff or the start of a piece, indicating the meter of the piece | Time signature |
| Vertical line on a note indicating how long that note is to be held relative to the notes around it. | Stem |
| in notation, a set of five horizontal lines between or on which notes are positioned | Staff |
| `in notation of rhythm, a symbol to indicate the duration of silence in the music | Rest |
| In notation, a black or white oval to which a stem and flags can be added | Note |
| A system of writing down music so that specific pitches and rhythms can be communicated | Notation |
| Note with a dot to the right of it that increases the note's undotted duration by half | Dotted note |
| Symbol placed at the begining of the staff to show the exact pitch of notes placed on each line and space | Clef |
| Horizontal line connecting the flags of several eigth notes or 16th notes in succession to facilitate reading these notes | Beam |
| Series of single tones that add up to the recognizeable whole | Melody |
| Interval between to adjacent tones in the scale | Step |
| Interval larger than that between two adjacent tones in the scale | Leap |
| Smooth, connected manner of performing a melody | Legato |
| Short, detached manner of performing a melody | Staccato |
| In a melody, the immediate repetition of a melodic pattern on a higher or lower pitch | Sequence |
| Part of a melody | Phrase |
| REsting place at the end of a phrase in a melody or progression giving a sense of conclusion often from the dominant chord to the tonic chord | Cadence |
| Harmony | How chords are constructed and how they follow each other |
| Tone combination that is stable and restful | Consonance |
| Combination of 3 or more tones sounded at once | Chord |
| Tone combination that is unstable and tense | Dissonance |
| Progression from a dissonance to a consonance | Resolution |
| Most basic of chords, consisting of 3 alternate tones of the scale such as do,mi, sol | Triad |
| Triad built on the first, or tonic, note of the scale, seerving as the main chord of the piece and usually begining and ending it. | Tonic chord |
| Central key of a piece of music usually begining and ending a piece regardless of how many other keys are included | Tonic key |
| (key) or central note, scale, and chord within a piece in relationship to all other tones that are heard | Tonality |
| Scale including all twelve tones of the octave: each tone is a half step away from the next one | Chromatic scale |
| Triad built on the 5th note of a scale which sets up tension that is resolved by the tonic chord | Dominant chord |
| (broken chord) sounding of the individual tones of a chord in sequence rather than simultaneously | Arpeggio |
| Smallest interval traditional used in western music, for example the interval between ti and do. | Half step |
| Interval twicwe as large as the half step: for example the interval between do and re | Whole step |
| Performance of a single melodic line by more than one instrument or voice at the same pitch or in different octaves | Unison |
| performance of two or more melodic lines of relatively equal interest at the same time | Polyphonic |
| Single melodic line without accompaniment | Monophonic |
| Term defining music in which one main chord is accompanied by chords | homophonic |
| Presentation of a melodic idea by one voice or instrument that is immediately follolwed by its restatement by another voice or instrument as in a round | Imitation |
| Techique of combining two or more melodic lines into a meaningful whole | Counterpoint |
| Striking differences of pitch, dynamics, rhythm, and tempo that provide variety and change ofg mood | Contrast |
| Reiteration of a motive or phrase used to create a sense of unity | Repitition |
| Three part form | ABA |
| Two part form | AB |
| Changing some features of a musical idea while retaining others | Variation |
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