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MOTW SEG 1 VOCAB
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pitch | The frequency of a sound; it relates to the highness or lowness of a tone that we hear |
| Octave | The repetition of the twelve pitches |
| Scale | A group of notes in ascending and descending pitch |
| Rhythm | The timing of the musical sounds or notes in the music |
| Beat | The basic time unit within a piece of music |
| Syncopation | Involves placing emphasis on normally un-emphasized beats or using a rest on a normally emphasized beat. |
| Tempo | The speed of a given piece of music |
| Metronome | Device that produces regular ticks or beats according to the beats per minute |
| Dynamics | Refers to the loudness or softness of a note, as well as the quality of the note as played |
| Subito forzando | A sudden change in the level of sound |
| Timbre | The tone quality of a sound; it is what helps to distinguish one musical instrument from another |
| Melody | A series of musical notes that have been strung together |
| Melodic phrases | Groups or sets of notes that make sense together, express a musical idea, and, when combined, create the melody |
| Harmony | Having more than one pitch within the music at the same time |
| Form | Helps to give structure to a composition; composers often combined them as they created new types of music |
| 12-bar blues | A chord progression that is common in many popular forms of music |
| Common meter | Music form that consists of four lines of a particular number of beats that end in the rhyming pattern of a-b-a-b. |
| Concerto | A musical piece in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra |
| Sonata | A large-scale composition that is played |
| Symphony | A longer musical composition scored for an orchestra |
| Popular Music | Any music since industrialization in the mid-1800s that is in line with the tastes and preferences of the middle class |
| Pop music | Music produced for a mass audience with typically shorter songs about love and other existing themes |
| Verse-chorus structure | Alternates verses with a repeating chorus |
| Thirty-two bar | AABA form; a series of verses is interrupted by a bridge |
| Billboard | Produced music charts, which helped to increase the popularity of pop music |
| British Invasion | In the 1960s, British pop groups such as the Beatles became popular in North America |
| Disco | One musical genre that developed in the 1970s |
| MTV | Began airing music videos in the early 1980s |
| Boy Band | Featured between three and six young adult males who typically sang, but did not play instruments |
| Prehistoric or primitive music | Includes all music created in preliterate cultures |
| Archaeomusicology | The use if archaeological techniques in the study of music |
| Pech Merle | A French cave that has red dots on the ceiling of the cave to note these special acoustic spots in the cave |
| Divje Babe Flute | Found in Slovenia, it appears to date about 50,000 years ago |
| Ancient Music | Music produced by early literate societies |
| Hurrian song | Refers to a set of fragmentary relics as well as a nearly complete example of notated music from around 1400 BCE |
| Samaveda | A collection of hymns from India |
| Natya Shastra | A written discourse on the performing arts, including music, dance, stage performances, and so on |
| Monophonic | Having a single melody with no accompaniment |
| Lyric Poetry | Included poems that were accompanied by instrumental music, often from a lyre. |
| Medieval music | The music that was produced in medieval Europe |
| Chants | Also known as plainsong; a type of monophonic sacred music |
| Gregorian chants | Often sung my male choirs and the music is still used in worship today. |
| Modes | A series of pitches in predefined order, with specific intervals between each point. |
| Polyphonic | Music that uses two or more independent melodies |
| Organum | The addition of a second music, sung in tandem, to Gregorian chants |
| Ars Nova | A musical form that became popular in the late medieval period, it featured multiple voices with a complex rhythm |
| Troubadors | Traveling poet-musicians who traveled from place to place, singing and performing for the nobility |
| Neumes | Signs written above the chant words to indicate where the voices should rise and where they should fall in tone |
| Renaissance music | Typically thought of as European music that developed during the Renaissance period. |
| Canon | A piece of music where one part echoes or imitates what the other part has just sang for a relatively substantial section of the music |
| Consort | An instrumental ensemble consisting of six instruments |
| Mouthharp | This instrument was developed long before the Renaissance and it produces different tones depending on the vibration produced |
| Sagbut | A type of trombone that was used in churches with Sacred Music pieces |
| Shawms | A 12in double reed woodwind 7 finger holes |
| Viols | Were developed in the 15th century and were played with bows. They had six strings and the instrument was rested between the musicians legs in a similar position to what we are used to seeing cellos played today |
| Hurdy-gurdy | Also known as the wheel fiddle; this instrument features strings that are surrounded by a wheel which is turned by a crank mechanism |
| Motets | "A piece of music and several parts with words" and they involve varied choral compositions. In Latin, the term describes "the movement of different voices against one another" |
| Chorales | Easy to sing Melodies often based on traditional folk songs |
| Madrigals | Voice composition that employ a number of voices (often from 3 to 6) but are unaccompanied by instruments |
| Antiphon | Voices or instruments start from the right side and are followed by Voices From the left |
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