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Music History
It's language, history, culture
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sound is a ______ it has all the properties of a _______, these are: frequency (pitch), amplitude (dynamic), wave form (timbre) and duration (duration). | Wave, wave |
| The four elements in sound are _______, ______, _______, and ________. | Frequency, amplitude, wave form and duration |
| Sound is comprised of 4 musical terms: _____, _____, ______, and _____. | Pitch, dynamics, timbre, duration |
| Frequency or pitch is what we _____ best | Hear |
| The ability to distinguish _____ varies from people to people. Just as some people are not able to distinguishing different colors. | Pitch |
| Those who are gifted at recognizing specific pitches are said to have _____ _______ | Perfect pitch |
| Amplitude is the amount of _______ contained the sound wave being perceived as either _____ or ______. | Energy, loud, soft |
| Wave form determines the tone color or ______ | Timbre |
| ________ helps us tell the difference between the sound produced by a voice, a guitar and a saxophone. Even if they are playing at the same _______. | Timbre, frequency |
| We perceive _______ as long or short. Several _______ one after the other create rhythm. | Duration, durations |
| Every sound has a its ______ ________ which we perceive as long or short. | Unique duration |
| Several durations one after the other create _______ | Rhythm |
| Duration is comprised of three elements: | Rhythm, meter, pitch |
| The attack points of a sequence is known as _____ | Rhythm |
| Organization of time in which beats are arranged into recurring groups of two's and three's or some combination is know as ______. | Meter |
| The irregular or unexpected stress in rhythmic flow is _______. | syncopation |
| ______ refers to the location of a musical sound in terms of high or low. | Pitch |
| _______ is determined by the length and thickness of a vibrating object. | Frequency |
| Thicker objects have ________ vibrations and thinner object have ______ vibrations. | Shorter, longer |
| Men's vocal chords are generally _______ and _______ than women and children. | Shorter, thinner |
| A _______ is a an arrangement of pitch material from high to low or vice versa. | Scale |
| Each element of a scale is called a ______ and the distance between steps is called an ______ | Step, interval |
| The position of whole and half steps in ascending or descending of tones determines the _______. | Mode |
| _______ ______ is made up of five whole steps and two half steps. Depending where these two half steps are placed will determine the ______. | Diatonic scale, mode |
| _________ __________ is comprised of a five- note scale that has three whole tones and tow half tones. | Pentatonic scale |
| The starting pitch of a scale is called a ________or a keynote. | Tonic |
| ______ is the combination tonic and scale type. | Key |
| The combination of scale type and tonic form the ______. | Key |
| A ______is a succession of musical tones that make up a meaningful whole. | Melody |
| If a melody moves moves in stepwise motion it is said to have a smooth contour and is called ______. When a melody is not smooth and has leaps it said to be __________. | Conjunct, disjunct |
| Melodies may be designed like sentences falling into clauses and ______. | Phrases |
| The termination of a musical phrase is called a ________. | Cadence |
| A ______ ________ functions like a period. A _____ _______ functions like a comma. | Full cadence, half cadence |
| _______ refers to how many layers of sound are heard. | Texture |
| A texture of a single melodic line unaccompanied is called ________. | Monophony |
| Monophony becomes __________ when spontaneous variation by two or more performers who produce a different variation of the same melody. | Hetrophony |
| The simultaneous combination of two or more independent melodies are called ______. Two or more simultaneous rhythmic lines is called ________. | Polyphony, polyrhythmic |
| If a texture has one dominant melody with an accompaniment it is called ______. | Homophony |
| _______ refers to the conduct of simultaneous sounding melodic lines one against the other . | Counterpoint |
| Rhythmic counterpoint is the unfolding of rhythmic parts in order to form _______. | Polyrhythmic textures |
| Counterpoint is to linear melodic events as ________is to vertical combinations. | Harmony |
| Tone color or _____ is the distinctive quality of a voice or instrument. | Timbre |
| Tone color is a result of a musical phenomenon called ________. | Overtones |
| _______ is the interaction of a melody, rhythm, texture, and harmony of a musical piece. | Form |
| Alphabets were used to identify ________ or sections : AA indicates _______, AB ________ , ABCD ________ ________, ABA______, and ABACA_______, ________ and ________. | Phrases, repetition, contrast, continuous structure, return, repetition, contrast, return |
| A canon is what musical texture _________. | Polyphony |
| __________ produce sound by air. | Aerophones |
| ________ produces sound by strings. | Chordophones |
| _________ produce sound by a stretched membrane (ie. durm) | Membranophones |
| ___________ is produced from the body of the instrument. | Idiophones |
| ___________ produce sound from electrical sources | Electrophones |
| _________ is long and short articulations. | Rhythm |
| AABABA is known as _______ _______ | Bridge Form |
| A pulse is a ______. | Beat |
| _________ is a regular pattern of accents in music. | Meter |
| ________ is another word for three part form | Ternary |
| ______ ______ is an example of 3/4 time | Compound beat |
| _______ _______ is an example 2/4 time | Simple beat |
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