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Test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Meter | MArked off by measures, organizes the beat |
| Tonic | The first note of a scale (the tonic or keynote "do"), which serves as the home base around which the other pitches revolve and to which they ultimately gravitate |
| tonality | Principle of organization around a tonic, or home, pitch, based on a major or minor scale |
| dissonance | Combination of tones that sounds discordant and unstable, in need of resolution. |
| Consonance | Concordant or harmonious combination of tones that provides a sense of relaxation and stability in music |
| melody | Succession of single tones or pitches perceived by the mind as a unity.(line or tune in music |
| phrase | Musical unit; often a component of a melody |
| range | distance between highest and lowest notes in a melody frequency: number of vibrations per second |
| cadence | Resting place in a musical phrase; music punctuation |
| major scale | A collection of seven different pitches ordered in a specific pattern of whole and half steps, as shown below:musical scale: a musical scale with intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth notes |
| minor scale | A collection of seven different pitches ordered in a specific pattern of whole and half steps, as shown below:a scale whose third and, usually, sixth and seventh notes are lower by a semitone |
| monophonic | Single-line texture, or melody without accompaniment |
| homophonic | Texture with principal melody and accompanying harmony, as distinct from polyphony |
| polyphonic | Two or more melodic lines combined into a multivoiced texture, as distinct from monophonic. |
| variation | A formal principle in which some aspects of the music are altered but the original is still recognizable; it falls between repetition and contrast. |
| improvisation | Creation of a musical composition while it is being performed, seen in Baroque ornamentation, cadenzas of concertos, jazz, and some non-Western musics. |
| conjuct melody | Smooth, connected melody that moves principally by small intervals. |
| disjunct melody | Disjointed or disconnected melody with many leaps. |
| meter | Organization of rhythm in time; the grouping of beats into larger, regular patterns, notated as |
| measures | In simple meters, such as duple, triple, and quadruple, each beat subdivides into two; in compound meters, such as sextuple, each beat divides into three. |
| beat/pulse | Regular pulsation; a basic unit of length in musical time genre: General term describing the standard category and overall character of a work |
| tempo | Rate of speed or pace of music. Tempo markings are traditionally given in Italian; common markings. |
| allegro | fast; cheerful |
| moderato | moderate |
| adajio | quite slow |
| crescendo | The dynamic effect of gradually growing louder, indicated in the musical score by the marking "<." |
| descrendo | descrescendo/diminuendo: The dynamic effect of gradually growing softer, indicated in the musical score by the marking ">." Also referred to as diminuendo. |
| dynamics | Element of musical expression relating to the degree of loudness or softness, or volume, of a sound. |
| forte | the italian word for loud |
| piano | the italian word for soft |
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