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Ch.1 Bio-Basics Flashcards

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Absolute Music

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makes no reference to music outside of itself; purely instrumental music

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Accentuation

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stresses a sound

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Amplitude

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the amount of force exerted on the vibrating medium; the greater the force the louder the sound

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Antiphonal

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back and forth between two groups; one group responds to the other

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Binary

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2 parts (A, B)

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Call-and-response

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gives a lead group or solo acquire that respond to each other

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Colotomic

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Indonesia; the architectural layout of music in Indonesia Gamelan

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Contour

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melodies have shapes, direction

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Crescendo

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a gradual increase in the volume of music

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Decrescendo

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a gradual decrease in the volume of music

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Descriptive Music

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program music; describe sections, place, person,etc

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Developmental Form

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sonata forms, Introduction;It refers to the transformation and restatement of initial material; retransition (theme;theme 2)

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Dramatic Music

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musical-dramatic production wrapped around a drama; opera

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Drone

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a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece; constant sound in the background

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Duple

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how we set music up in the units - what kind of music gets what beat; (of rhythm) based on two main beats to the measure

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Dynamics

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Ethnomusicology

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study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.

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Figure

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Frequency

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pitch of a sound/note; wavelengths; the greater the frequency the higher the pitch

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Function of Music

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music bound up with all aspects of living all aspects of life cycle (ex: birth-death); utilitarian music

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Harmony

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Hemiola

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2s and 3s put together creating cross-beading; crossing them over

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Heterophony

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popular in India, most middle eastern music; a single melody and call it out - does their own rendition of the melody, creates texture to the music

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Hexatonic

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describing the # of pitches in a given scale (6 pitches)

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Homphony

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texture in music; notes moving at the same time no rhythmic independence

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Interval

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distance between pitches

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Key

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working with a given tonal framework; gives a particular framework

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Meter

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Modes

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way, manner of the pitches

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Modulation

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moving to another tonal space to another or another key to another

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Monophony

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Motive

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Non-pulsatile

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can’t find pulse 1234, 1234

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Octave

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Ostinato

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(rigid, stubborn) pattern or rhythmic pattern repeated stubbornly; music repeats the same rhythmic pattern throughout the whole song

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Pentatonic

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7 pitches in a scale

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Pitch

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determined by frequency

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Polyphonic

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Polyrhythms

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rhythms come in one at a time and stack them up

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Polytonal

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all at a different key at the same time

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Program Music

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Pulsatile

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Range

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high and low

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Rhapsodic

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rhapsodia; heroic; portray something heroic; one motion to another

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Rhythm

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B,C pulses, meter; movement and motion, time pulse-rhythmic pattern; sound moving through time and space

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Rondo

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musical material stated at the beginning of the piece keeps returning (ex; A,B,A,C,A,D,A,C,A,B,A)

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Scale

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Song Cycle

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poems in music, music wrapped around literary models; put into a set

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Strophic

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each stanza and verses and different texts form of music stays the same

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Suite

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number of instrumental dances strung together in a set

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Syncopation

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(rhythmic) alteration and disturbing weak beat pattern; to cut short, what happens when you change the stress pattern of music

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Tempo

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velocity; rate of speed; how fast the music move- allegro, metronome, and presto

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Ternary

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3 parts of different material (A,B,A)

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Texture

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thin/thick texture in music; stacking (or not) of music

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Theme

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Through-Composed

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architecture in music; doesn’t go back and repeat anything; new sound content all the…; no repeats on section ideas

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Timbre

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tone color; every sound is made up of a harmonics; every sound is gonna be different

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Tonality

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Tonic

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the key note

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Triple

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Tuning

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adjusting the frequency; having everyone on the same “wavelength” (vibrations)

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Variations

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take a tune or melody that is varied in many ways that you think you can do it

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Vibrations

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all songs come from a vibration; Musical instruments create sounds by making something vibrating

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