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Music Unit1 Sec3-4
Musical Terms
Question | Answer |
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Harmony | The simultaneous events of music. |
Dissonance | Unstable harmony; Sounding against. |
Consonance | Resolution of unstable harmony; Sounding with or complementing. |
Drone | Sustained sounding of one or several tones for harmony support. |
Texture | Interweaving of melodic lines with harmony. |
Monophony | Single voice music with no accompaniment. |
Heterophony | Multiple voices elaborating one melody. |
Polyphony | Many voice music or texture; Two or more melodic lines combined into a multivoiced texture. |
Homophony | One voice with accompaniment. |
Imitation | Melodic idea presented in one voice and then restated in another, each part continuing as others enter. |