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Music in Culture
Exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Indian musical fragment | Raga |
| Very slow | Adagio |
| Quintessential Baroque composer; died in 1750 | J.S Bach |
| Presence of specific home note (tonic) | Key |
| Quite fast and lively | Vivace |
| Two or more melodies with or without accompaniment | Polyphony |
| Symbol of musical duration | Note |
| Strong or loud | Forte |
| Harsh sounding | Dissonance |
| How one uses musical elements | style |
| Very fast | presto |
| Single musical line | monophony |
| most used scale in Western music | major |
| getting louder | crescendo |
| speed of the beat | tempo |
| five lines for writing music | staff |
| Indian bamboo flute | venu |
| "home note" | tonic |
| sad sounding scale | minor scale |
| Struck instruments | percussion |
| one accompanied melody | homophony |
| regular pattern of strong and weak beats | meter |
| using all the "colors" notes | chromatic |
| musical pulse | beat |
| two or more notes together | harmony |
| relationship of musical layers | texture |
| type of melody or soprano | lyric |