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Music Theory Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Traditionally, the speed of a piece is indicated through the use of Italian-language terms. | Tempo |
| very slow tempo | Largo |
| slow tempo | Adagio |
| Walking speed tempo | Andante |
| Fast tempo | Allegro |
| Very fast | Presto |
| Fast, with fire | Allegro con fuoco |
| The two most common types are the major and minor, both of which are referred to as diatonic, meaning that they have seven notes between octaves and follow a repeating pattern of whole steps and half steps. | Scales |
| he distance between two pitches—are described with ordinal numbers | Intervals |
| The most common types are built of successive notes that are each a third above the previous. A triad consists of three notes referred to as the root, third, and fifth—the third and fifth being that respective interval above the root. | Chords |
| The “home” scale of the work. It is most often indicated by the work’s key signature, a collection of sharps or flats that appears at the beginning of the work and on each subsequent line of music | Key |
| markings indicate the volume at which music is to be played | Dynamics |
| Dynamic marking meaning “loud,” and abbreviated f | Forte |
| Dynamic marking meaning “soft,” and abbreviated p | Piano |
| medium loud. | Mezzo Forte |
| “very soft.” | pianissimo |
| Gradual changes in volume are indicated by a _________ meaning gradually getting louder, | Crescendo |
| gradually getting softer. | Decrescendo |
| Refers to the various techniques which may be used to modify the attack or performance of a single note or a series of notes | Articulation |
| Some of the most common articulations include _________, meaning light or short | Staccato |
| Articulation meaning a note is to be held its entire value | Tenuto |
| Articulation meaning a series of notes is to be connected to one another very smoothly | Legato |
| A work’s overall structure, is often depicted via a series of capital letters, with each different letter representing a large section of contrasting material. | Form |
| (“AB” or “AABB”) | Binary Form |
| (“ABA”), | ternary form |
| "A” endlessly repeated, commonly found in folk songs or religious hymns with multiple verses | strophic form |
| Developed by Arnold Schoenberg in the early 1920s and is one method of writing atonal music | Twelve-tone technique |
| music that has no key or tonic pitch. | Atonal music |
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