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Music Test One
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Define melody. | A single line of notes heard in succession as a coherent unit |
| What is the smallest unit of music? | A note |
| Define phrases. | Brief musical statements used to mimic speech |
| In music, what is like a period in a sentence? | Cadence |
| Define cadence. | A point of arrival, where the melody comes to rest |
| What term is used to describe the upward and/or downward motion of music? | Contour |
| What are the two types of melodic motion? | Conjunct and Disjunct Motion |
| What's the difference between conjunct motion and disjunct motion? | Conjunct motion is the movement of pitch through adjacent notes. Disjunct motion is the movement of pitch through leaps! |
| Define scale. | A series of notes that provide the essential pitch building blocks of melody |
| Define octave. | The interval between two pitches of the same note |
| What is the distance between each note called? | Interval |
| What is the science of sound? | Acoustics |
| Define pitch. | The position of a sound |
| What determines the pitch of a sound? | The frequency (or wavelength) |
| What determines the dynamics (the volume) of sound? | The amplitude |
| Define a musical key. | A central note which a melody is based |
| What are the two modes of music and which mode comes off as darker to us? | Major mode and minor mode. Music in the minor mode strikes most listeners as dark |
| Define rhythm. | The ordering of music through time. |
| True or False: Not all music has melody, but ALL music has rhythm. | True |
| Define musical meter. | The underlying pattern of beats |
| What is a triple meter? | ONE two three One two there. An underlying pattern of rhythm in which each unit consists of one accented beat followed by two unaccented beats |
| What meter is the star spangled Banner written in? | triple meter |
| Define measure. | a rhythmic unit indicated by a bar line in notated music, that presents one complete statement of the meter |
| Define Harmony. | the sound created by multiple voices playing or singing together. |
| How does Harmony enrich the melody? | By creating a fuller sound which can not be created by a single voice |
| Define chord. | Three or more notes played or sung at the same time |
| What term is defined as the note that establishes a key? | tonic |
| Define texture. | Based on the number and general relationship of musical lines or voices. Can be thick (having many voices) or thin (having a single voice). |
| What are the three types of texture? | monophonic, homophonic, and polyphonic |
| Explain monophonic texture. | a single melodic line with no accompaniment |
| True or False: two voices in different octaves is considered to be a monophonic texture. | True |
| Explain homophonic texture. | a single melodic line with accompaniment |
| Explain polyphonic texture. | multiple melodies of equal importance |
| Define timbre. | the character of a sound. |
| What element of music makes instruments and voices sound different from one another? | Timbre |
| What terms do we use when referring to the dynamics of a piece? | pianissimo (pp), piano (p), mezzo piano (mp), mezzo forte (mf), forte (f), and fortissimo (ff) |
| Define musical form. | The structure of the piece. We describe the form of a piece using letter: A,B,C... |
| What are the 8 elements of music? | Melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, timbre, dynamics, form, and word music relationship |
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AndrewTomes