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Music Mid Term vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sound | A vibration that travels through a medium such as air, water, or solid, than vibrates your eardrum which is connected to nerves which sends electrical impulses to your brain interpreting that as sound |
| Interval | distance in pitch between two tones |
| pitch | highness or lowness in a note |
| Octave | when a tone is separated by an interval |
| tone | note |
| dynamics | Is the degree of loudness and soft ness |
| Crescendo | Soft to loud < |
| descresendo (diminuendo) | loud to soft > |
| aaccents | emphasis on a note ^ |
| Rythm | the pattern of re occurrent sound or movement |
| Chord | combination of 3 notes played together |
| arpeggio | when chord are played separately |
| Progression | when chords are played together |
| step | moving from note to the next closest note |
| skip | jumping over one note in the scale |
| leap | moving to a note that is farther away in the scale |