Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
MA - Unit 1
MA Notes/Vocab - Unit 1
| Sound | Vibrations that are transmitted, usually through air, to the eardrum, which sends impulses to the brain |
| Pitch | Relative highness or lowness of a sound. |
| Tone | Sound that has a definite pitch or frequency |
| Interval | Distance” in pitch between any two tones |
| Octave | Interval between two tones in which the higher tone has twice the frequency of the lower tone |
| Pitch Range | Distance between the highest and lowest tones that a given voice or instrument can produce |
| Dynamics (amplitude) | Degrees of loudness or softness in music |
| Accent | Emphasis of a note, which may result from its being louder, longer, or higher in pitch than the notes near it. |
| Tone Color (timbre) | Quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument or voice from another |
| String Instrument | An instrument whose sound is produced by the vibration of strings |
| Woodwind Instrument | An instrument whose sound is produced by vibrations of air in a tube; holes along the length of the tube are opened and closed by the fingers or by pads to control the pitch |
| Brass Instrument | An instrument made of brass or silver whose sound is produced by the vibrations of the player’s lips as he or she blows into a cup- or funnel-shaped mouthpiece. The vibrations are amplified and colored in a tube that is flared at the end. |
| Percussion Instrument | Instrument of definite or indefinite pitch whose sound is produced by striking by hand, or with a stick or hammer, or by shaking or rubbing |
| Electronic Instrument | Instrument whose sound is produced, modified, or amplified by electronic means. |
| Keyboard Instrument | Instruments—such as the piano, organ, or harpsichord—played by pressing a series of keys with the fingers |
| Theme | Melody that serves as the starting point for an extended piece of music. |
| Rhythm | The ordering of sounds and silence in time. |
| Beat | Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time. |
| Meter | Organization of beats into regular groups. |
| Syncopation | Accenting a note at an unexpected time, as between two beats or on a weak beat. Syncopation is a major characteristic of jazz. |
| Tempo | The basic pace of the music. |
| Notation | System of writing down music so that specific pitches and rhythms can be communicated. |
| Note | In notation, a black or white oval to which a stem and flags can be added. |
| Staff | In notation, a set of five horizontal lines between or on which notes are positioned. |
| Ledger Lines | Short, horizontal lines above or below the staff, used to indicate a pitch that falls above or below the range indicated by the staff. |
| Clef | Symbol placed at the beginning of the staff to show the exact pitch of notes placed on each line and space |
| Treble Clef | Notation on a staff to indicate relatively high pitch ranges, such as those played by a pianist’s right hand |
| Bass Clef | Symbol on the staff indicating relatively low pitch ranges, such as those played by a pianist’s left hand |
| Middle C | Note C nearest to the center of the piano keyboard, notated as the pitch on the ledger line below the treble clef and above the bass clef. |
| Art Music (Classical Music) | Music for intellectual engagement. |
| Folk Music | Music which documents life at a certain time and geographic location. |
| Popular Music | Music for entertainment |
| Incidental Music | Music for the theater |
| Music | The art of ordering tones, sounds, and silences in succession and or in combination to produce a composition that has continuity |
| Rest | In notation of rhythm, a symbol to indicate the duration of silence in the music. |
| TIme Signature (Meter Signature) | Two numbers, one above the other, appearing at the beginning of a staff or the start of a piece, indicating the meter of the piece. |
| Melody | a series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole |
| Harmony | The way chords are constructed and how they follow each other |
| Chord | A combination of 3 or more tones sounded at once |
| Consonance | A stable tone combination |
| Dissonance | An unstable tone combination |
| Triad | Chord consisting of 3 chords |
| Scale | The basic pitches of a piece of music arranged in order from low to high or high to low |
| Motive | Fragment of a theme or short musical idea that is developed within a composition |
| Major Scale | Series of seven different tones within an octave, with an eighth tone repeating the first tone an octave higher |
| Minor Scale | Can begin any of the 12 tones in an octave |
| Major Key | When a piece of music is based on a major scale |
| Minor Key | When a piece of music is based on a minor scale |
| Key Signature | Sharp or flat signs immediately following the clef sign to indicate the key of a piece of music |
| Musical Texture | Number of layers of sound that are heard at once, what kinds of layers they are, and how they are related to each other |
| Monophonic | Single melodic line without accompaniment - having one sound |
| Polyphonic | Having many sounds - imitation |
| Homophonic | When we hear one main melody accompanied by chords. |
| Form | The organization of musical elements in time - musical blueprint. |
| Coda | A concluding section following the recapitulation and rounding off the movement by repeating themes or developing them further. |
| Simple Binary | Form with two full melodies |
| Rounded Binary | All the 1st melody, all of the 2nd melody, and a little part of the 1st melody again. |
| Ternary | A form with three full melodies |
Created by:
llliiizzzyyy3
Popular Music sets