Ch. 3 The Elements of Music

Question 1

Pitch

Answer 1

How high or low a musical not is.

Question 2

The Clef Sign

Answer 2

Symbol designates pitches on the staff and tells us whether the basic range is low or high.

Question 3

Tie

Answer 3

Curved line connecting notes, they will be heard as one note.

Question 4

Measure (Bar)

Answer 4

A single vertical line appearing at regular intervals along the staff

Question 5

Time Signature

Answer 5

Tells how many beats (top number) and what types of notes receive a beat (bottom number).

Question 6

Melody

Answer 6

A succession of pitches heard as a unit

Question 7

Tune

Answer 7

When a unit is easily recognizable, memorable.

Described as tuneful.

Question 8

Range

Answer 8

Distance between highest and lowest notes

Question 9

Intervals

Answer 9

Distance between one pitch and the next

Question 10

Disjunct

Answer 10

Melody contains significant number of large intervals

Question 11

Conjunct

Answer 11

When a melody contains smaller intervals

Question 12

Phrases

Answer 12

Rests that allow singer a break to breath, defines melodic units

Question 13

Cadence

Answer 13

The ends of a phrase

Question 14

Open Cadence

Answer 14

Ending that seem incomplete, like commas or question marks

Question 15

Closed Cadance

Answer 15

Ending that seem complete, like periods or exclamation marks.

Question 16

Lyrical

Answer 16

Melodies played by instruments that mimic a vocal style of limited range, conjunct movement and regular reoccurring phrases.

Question 17

Motive

Answer 17

A small melodic idea that can serve as part of a larger melody, or stand on its own.

Question 18

Theme

Answer 18

Melody that is reoccurring within a work

Question 19

Texture

Answer 19

Relationship of a melodic line to other musical material in a given passage.

Question 20

Homophonic

Answer 20

A single dominant melody with accompaniment or music with no dominant tune.

Question 21

Monophonic

Answer 21

Presentation of a single melodic line without any musical material.

Question 22

Contrapuntal

Counter Point

Answer 22

The presence of two or more equal melodies.

Question 23

Imitation

Answer 23

When the melodies are counter point and similar to each other.

Question 24

Fugue

Answer 24

The development of one or more themes in imitative counterpoint, full length fugues are rare.

Question 25

Harmony

Answer 25

Music created when two or more pitches are produced at the same time.

Question 26

Chord

Answer 26

The simultaneous sound of three or more pitches.

Question 27

Dissonance

Answer 27

When the pitches of a chord clash, creating tension

Question 28

Tritone

Answer 28

The diminished 5th, augmented 4th, creates tension melodically and harmonically

Question 29

Chromatic

Answer 29

Abandoning the two 7-scales and using all 12 pitches found in an octave.

Question 30

Microtones

Answer 30

Units smaller than a half step.

Question 31

Beat

Answer 31

Structured series of reoccurring pulses.

Question 32

Tempo

Answer 32

The speed at which the pulses are heard

Question 33

Meter

Answer 33

The regular pattern of beats of strong and weak pulses.

Question 34

Syncopation

Answer 34

Placing musical accents on weak beats or in between beats of an established meter.

Question 35

Timbre

Answer 35

The color or tonal quality produced by voices/instruments or both.

Question 36

Orchestration

Answer 36

Assigning various musical ides to voices/instruments.

Question 37

Orchestrator

Answer 37

Assists the composer by suggesting possible instrumental combinations and writing out individual orchestral parts.

Question 38

When Refering to Voices.

Answer 38

1. Vocal color
2. Voice type
3. Number of singers
4. Text
5. Style

Question 39

Types of Symphonic Instruments

Answer 39

Strings, Brass, Woodwinds, Percussions

Question 40

Pizzicato

Answer 40

The act of plucking a stringed instrument.

Question 41

Electronic Instruments

Answer 41

Theremin and Ondes Martenot, Moog Synthesizer

Create and eerie oscillating sound.

Question 42

Historic Instruments

Answer 42

Recorders, Viols, Lutes, Mandolins, Harpsichord