Aural Analysis Skills Flashcards

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Mouth cavity trained to have a high palate to create an open, formal sound

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Classical singing

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More flexibility to shape of the mouth, use high and low palates to manipulate vocal sounds.

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Popular singing

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Lower ranges of the voice have a heavier tonal quality similar to natural talking.

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Chest register

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Upper ranges tone quality (Men/Women)

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Head voice/ Middle voice

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Highest ranges above the normal speaking voice. More breathy tone quality.

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Falsetto/Head voice

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Membranophones (Drums), Idiophones (vibrates)

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Percussion

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Buzzing of lips, Conical bore/Cylindrical bore, Dynamics produced by velocity of air.

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Brass instruments

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Instrument is not all the same size (mellow round sound), French Horn and Tuba

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Conical Bore

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Instrument is the same size (Bright sound), Trumpet and Trombone

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Cylindrical Bore

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Vibration of Strings produce sound, made of nylon, steel or silk, Higher tension higher the pitch, Thicker string lower the pitch, Speed and pressure affect the dynamics.

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Sting Instruments

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Vibrations of reed, reeds, or splitting of air, Single reed vibrates with mouthpiece, double reeds vibrate together, Dynamics affected by how fast air is moving and how much.

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Woodwind Instruments

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The back and forth oscillation of pressure produces a sound wave.

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Pressure oscialltion

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Source of oscillation (ex. reed on a ww.)

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Simple resonator

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14
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Simple sine wave whose frequency stays constant. Contain no harmonies.

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Pure tone

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15
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Vocal parts separated in blocks front to back (normal arrangement) best for homophonic pieces.

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Choral Block

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Choral music in which the parts have mostly the same rhythms at the same time.

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Homophonic

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Separated in columns best suits polyphonic music

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Choral columnar

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18
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Two or more voices sing different things at the same time.

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Polyphonic choral music

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19
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Mixed together best for intonation and audience sound

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Mixed formation

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20
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Root of the chord is the lowest sounding pitch (I)

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Root postion

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21
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Third is the lowest sounding (I6)

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First inversion

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Fifth of the chord is the lowest sounding (I6/4)

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Second inversion

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23
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The same plus third inversion

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Seventh Chords

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24
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Seventh is the lowest sounding (I 6/4/2)

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Third inversion

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25
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I7/5/3

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Root position Seventh Chord

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26
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I6/5/3

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1st inversion seventh chord

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27
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16/4/3

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2nd inversion seventh chord

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28
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I6/4/2

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3rd inversion seventh chord

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29
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Dominant sounding harmony resolving to the tonic harmony V-I or V-i

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Authentic cadence

30
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Roots of the V and I chords sounding in the bass and the tonic as the highest sounding note on the final chord

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Perfect authentic cadence

31
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May not have the tonic sounding in the highest note or is inverted

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Imperfect authentic cadence

32
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Subdominant sounding harmony resolving to the tonic harmony, IV-I or iv-i

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Plagal cadence

33
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The major 7th of a scale, wants to be raised a semitone to end up on the root.

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Leading tone

34
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Dominant-sounding harmony progressing to a harmony that defies the expected tonic harmony, most commonly the submediant harmony. V-VI or V-iv or the subdominant V-IV V-iv.

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Deceptive cadence

35
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Little to no sense of resolution of the music.

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Weak cadence

36
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Harmony progressing to a dominant harmony. The preceding harmony can be the tonic, subdominant, supertonic, or any other harmony. I64-V (I64 and V share the bass note when moving through this progression)

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Half Cadence

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First inversion subdominant chord proceeds to the dominant.

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Phrygian half cadence

38
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First inversion subdominant chord is raised by a half step and then resolved to the dominant.

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Lydian half cadence

39
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A piece that has two main parts, which are often called reprises since they usually repeat.

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Binary form

40
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A piece of music that can be started at different times and sung simultaneously. (Canon)

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Two-part

41
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Imperfect and perfect cadences

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Authentic and plagal cadences

42
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Both of the chords are in root position and the tonic pitch sounds in the highest voice

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Perfect

43
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Either chord is in an inversion and/or the tonic pitch does not sound in the highest voice.

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Imperfect

44
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Similar to the Aeolian mode of the half-whole-whole-half-whole-whole. (three half steps down C-A)

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Minor Scale

45
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Minor scale without alterations

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natural minor scale

46
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Seventh of the scale is raised

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Harmonic minor

47
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Seventh and sixth scale degree is raised going up, but lowered going down.

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Melodic minor

48
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Scale made of whole steps

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Whole tone scale

49
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Scale with every pitch separated by a half step

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Chromatic scale

50
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System of musical theory in which a composition is based on a serial ordering of all 12 pitches that stipulates the sequence in which those 12 pitches should appear in the composition.

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12-tone music

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Form of imitative counterpoint in which a fugue theme is introduced at the beginning of the work, also known as the exposition, and is echoed in all the voices through imitations and development.

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Fugue

52
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A group of closely spaced notes played simultaneously, usually in intervals of adjacent seconds and groupings.

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Tone clusters

53
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Only neighboring notes in the diatonic key are used.

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Diatonic tone cluster

54
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Notes are separated by a half-step are used.

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Chromatic tone clusters

55
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Both chromatic and diatonic notes are used.

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dia-chromatic tone clusters

56
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“At ease” understood to mean a slower tempo than andante, but faster than largo.

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Adagio

57
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Moderately, is a relative tempo designation that is faster than andante, but slower than allegro.

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Moderato

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Very fast, generally treated as a very quick tempo, much faster than allegro.

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Presto

59
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As Fast as possible

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Prestissimo

60
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At a walking pace, ambiguous can be thought as faster than adagio but slower than allegro.

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Andante

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Lively and merry, generally treated as a fast or moderately fast tempo.

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Allegro

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A rhythm of three notes in a space that usually only has two notes.

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Hemiola

63
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A change in note values where, for example, three half notes follow a measure of two dotted half notes in 6/4 meter.

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Horizontal hemiola

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A rhythmic syncopation where, for example, three quarter notes play over two dotted quarter notes in 6/8 meter.

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Vertical hemiola

65
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The numbers in the meter refers to the subdivision of beats within a musical measure.

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Simple and compound meters

66
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A tonal work that can be seen as a complete and self-contained work that is not divisible into other, smaller self-contained works. Include binary and ternary forms

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Simple musical forms

67
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A tonal work that can be seen as a composite form that is made up of other, smaller simple forms such as binary and ternary forms. Minuetto and trio

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Compound musical form

68
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A return to the original thematic material of A. ABA or AA’A.

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Rounded binary form

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Refers to the structure of a musical composition with regard to thematic, tonal, dynamic, and textural structure. Consists of three main sections in which the first and third sections are nearly identical with contrasting second section. A (tonic Key) B (in a related key and cadences in the same key or another closely related key) A

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Ternary Form

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Refers to the texture of any music made up of a single melodic line.

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Monophony

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Refers to the texture of any music with a main melodic line over a supporting accompaniment line.

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Homophony

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Refers to the texture of any music that is made up of multiple improvised interpretations of the same melody played at the same time.

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Heterophony