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Music Test ONE
Name of the diffent items in music
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bells | (tone made of "pure tones") |
| Organ | (12th/13th century synthesizer - "timbres" made of combined pure tones) |
| OSHA standards | This class covers the goals and purposes of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, including its standards, programs, and interactions with employers and employees. |
| Expectancy in music | In music, this means that a given musical event or passage implies or anticipates an upcoming musical event or passage |
| Grouping mechanisms | micro to macro |
| Historical style periods | Antiquity - up to 476 Medieval - 476-1453 Renaissance - 1453-1600 Baroque - 1600-1750 Classical - 1750-1825 Romantic - 19th century 20th century 21st century |
| Elements of sound | Frequency - pitch Amplitude - loudness Wave form - timbre Duration - duration |
| Elements of music | Melody Harmony Rhythm Timbre Form |
| Expressive elements | (dynamics, tempo variations) |
| Tonality | 1.The character of a piece of music as determined by the key in which it is played or the relations between the notes of a scale or key. |
| Modality | A mode is a series of intervals used to construct a scale. |
| Overtones | 1.A musical tone that is a part of the harmonic series above a fundamental note and may be heard with it. |
| Chromatic | a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below another. |
| Whole tone | a scalar arrangement of pitches, each separated from the next by a whole-tone step (or whole step), in contradistinction to the chromatic scale |
| Pentatonic | Music any of several scales consisting of five notes, the most commonly encountered one being composed of the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth degrees of the major diatonic scale |
| chord progression | a series of musical chords, or chord changes that "aims for a definite goal" of establishing a tonality founded on a key, root or tonic chord[1] and that is based upon a succession of root relationships. Chords and chord theory are known as harmony. |
| Triad | A chord of three tones, especially one built on a given root tone plus a major or minor third and a perfect fifth |
| Texture | Monophonic Homophonic Heterophonic Polyphonic |
| Tessitura | the range in which a given type of voice presents its best-sounding texture or timbre. |
| Meter | number of beats per group |
| Syncopation | A shift of accent in a passage or composition that occurs when a normally weak beat is stressed. |
| asymmetric meter | meter with an irregular pulse (usually with the top number of the time signature being 5, 7, 11, etc...) |
| compound meter | is a time signature or meter with a triple pulse within each beat |
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