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Cards for chapters 1-6

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Rhythm   the motion of music in time  
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Beat   steady underlying pulse  
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Duple and Triple Meter   two or three beat measures/common time  
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Asymmetrical Meter   other than 2-3 meter, beats are measured from 5-7 beat measures  
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Tempo   Rater of the beat  
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Simple meter   beat is divided evenly in half  
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compound meter   beat is divided into thirds  
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syncopation   -accent that contradicts the meter -rhythmic surprise  
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Polyrhythm   more than 1 rhythm at the same time  
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Melody   consecutive pitches that promote a coherent idea  
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Identify a major scale   C to C scale  
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White keys   A-G keys  
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How many tones in an octave   12 tones with 7 different letters  
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Half step   smallest type of interval between keys  
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whole step   two half steps  
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intonation   tuning  
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countour   shape of the melodic line  
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disjunct contour   wide intervals with jagged contour or wide range  
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conjunct contour   narrow intervals with smooth contour and narrow range  
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What is a sentence?   complete melody  
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what is a phrase?   sentence divided into sections  
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what is a cadence   a pause in a phrase  
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tonality   momentum toward a final tone or "home"  
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Humanism   center around the human body rather than the divine.  
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Renaissance   rebirth of classical learning. (ancient greek and roman) 1450-1600  
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Josquin   -sacred and secular music -polyphonic mass -uses imitative polyphony -pange lingua  
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Palestrina   -used in religious activities because emphasized the words -homphonic style -pope marcellus mass  
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Motet   -religious text but not used in religious services -polyphonic style [imitative and hompoh] -no repetition -Ex. Josquin Ave Maria  
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Madrigal   -secular -polyphonic setting -derived from text and no repetition -vernacular languages -subject: love and praising patrons -Ex. Thomas Weelkes: As Vesta Was From Latmos Hill Descending  
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Chanson   -French with courtly love -homophonic setting -repetitions -flexible arrangements with voices and instruments -Ex. Claudin Sermisy: Tand que Vivray  
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4 categories of Instrumental music   -strings -brass -woodwinds -percussion  
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Consorts   similar instruments set from low to high pitch  
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broken/mixed consorts   different instruments in combinations -emphasizes individual instrumental parts  
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shwams and sackbuts   loud band  
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recorders   soft band  
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lute   popular instrument that can polyphonic pieces  
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instrumental music   used for arranging voices in vocal works  
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Texture   layers of musical activity  
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Monopohonic texture   1 melody with nothing added to it  
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heterophony   several voices/instruments performing the same melody but with slight variations  
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homphonic texture   one primary melody with support  
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rhythmic unison   supporting parts have same rhythm just different pitches  
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melody and accompaniment   supporting parts with and independent rhythm  
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imitative polyphony   same melody played against itself  
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non-imitative polyphony   different melodies at the same time  
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Call and response   one melody divided between two groups or people  
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Medieval Europe   450-1450; music central to worship, composers were mainly patrons to the church  
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Medieval European Composers   linked to the church and educated by the church in notation  
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Neumes   notation without lines [memory aides]  
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Single line staff   notation with pitch reference  
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Four line staff   notation with four lines  
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Square notation   notation that is still used today  
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Gregorian Chant   -Plainchant -flexible rhythm -single melodic line -syllabic or melismatic -Ex. Haec Dies  
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syllabic   one note for each syllable  
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melismatic   one syllable held over many notes  
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Hildegard von Bergen   -one of earliest composers -nun,abbess  
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Organum   -vocal polyphony based on plainchant  
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Ars Nova Style   -polyphonic -voices and instruments mixed  
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4 attributes of sound   pitch, amplitude, timbre, duration  
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dynamics   descriptive terms for volume levels  
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crescendo   gradually louder  
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static   unchanging dynamics  
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terraced   suddenly louder or softer  
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decresdcendo   gradually softer  
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timber   quality of sound that separates each instrument and voice -dependent on overtones -combinations of instruments [nirvana vs nirvana unplugged]  
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harmony   simultaneous pitch with chords in logical sequences  
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form   structure and organization [shape]  
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