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The Music Experience
Test 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Score | Music in written form |
| Rhythm | Organization and durations of sounds and silences |
| Tempo | How fast the beat is going |
| Beat | Basic pulse in a composition |
| Syncopation | When prominent notes fall between the notes |
| Meter | Organized pattern of beats into patterns of stresses |
| Rest | Silence |
| Rubato | Expressive device of lengthening and shortening the length of a beat |
| Accelerando | Beat gets faster |
| Dumka | Melancholy with contrasting lively sections |
| Backbeat | Something noticeable happens on beats 2 and 4 |
| Ritardando | Beat slows down gradually |
| Melody | The tune, a collection of rhythm and notes organized into a meaningful whole |
| Conjunct Melody | Uses mostly single step wise motion |
| Disjunct Melody | Uses a lot of jumps |
| Pitch | The highness-lowness of something |
| Frequency | Number of wave lengths of something (Hertz) |
| Interval | Distance between 2 notes |
| Octave | A type of interval featuring a 2:1 ratio of frequency |
| Scale | A trip through the musical alphabet |
| Program | Where the list of the pieces are fora concert |
| Program Notes | Paragraphs written about the music in the program |
| Movement | Large section of a larger work, usually set apart by e pause and a change in character and style |
| Multi-movement piece | A piece with more than one movement |
| Harmony | Created whenever 2 or more pitches are sounded at the same time |
| Accompaniment | The music that accompanies the melody |
| Consonance | Combination of notes that are in harmony |
| Dissonance | Lack of harmony |
| Western Music | European based music |
| Tonal Music | Music without hierarchy of pitches |
| Dynamics | Loudness1softness |
| Forte | Strong, loud |
| Piano | Soft |
| Pianoforte | Piano the instrument |
| Crescendo/Decrescendo | Gradually getting louder/softer |
| Texture | How many musical lines are occurring at one time |
| Timbre | Tone color in music |
| Form | The structure of a piece |
| Key Changes | When a composer decides to begin using a different scale |
| A Cappella | Voices only (as in the chapel) |
| Verse | New text to a repeating melody |
| Chorus | Same text to a repeating melody |
| Strophic Form | Song with repeating melodies and text |
| Da Capo | Back to the beginning (the head) |
| Legato | Long notes, connected notes |
| Staccato | Short notes, spaced |
| Hemiola | When triple meter music changes 2x3 to 3x2 |
| Cadence | Series of chords or notes that brings the music to at least a temporary close |
| The Seven Broad Categories | Rhythm, melody, timbre, harmony, dynamics, texture, form |
| The Four O-phones | Chordophone (string), aerophone (woodwind and brass), idiophone (percussion), membranophone (drums) |
| I Chord | 1, 3, and 5 |
| IV Chord | 4, 6, and 8 |
| V Chord | 5, 7, and 2 |
| Song #1 | Chopin- Estude in E major, Op. 10, No. 3 "Tristesse" |
| Song #2 | Handel-"Alla Hornpipe" from Water Music (underlined) |
| Composer | Person who writes music |
| Arrangement | Arranger taking pre-existing piece and making it as you like |
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