Ch.1 Bio-Basics

Question 1

Absolute Music

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Accentuation

Answer 2

stresses a sound

Question 3

Amplitude

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Antiphonal

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Binary

Answer 5

2 parts (A, B)

Question 6

Call-and-response

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

Question 7

Colotomic

Answer 7

Indonesia; the architectural layout of music in Indonesia Gamelan

Question 8

Contour

Answer 8

melodies have shapes, direction

Question 9

Crescendo

Answer 9

a gradual increase in the volume of music

Question 10

Decrescendo

Answer 10

a gradual decrease in the volume of music

Question 11

Descriptive Music

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program music; describe sections, place, person,etc

Question 12

Developmental Form

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Dramatic Music

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musical-dramatic production wrapped around a drama; opera

Question 14

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

Question 15

Duple

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Dynamics

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Ethnomusicology

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

Question 18

Figure

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Frequency

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

Harmony

Question 22

Hemiola

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

Hexatonic

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

Question 25

Homphony

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

Question 26

Interval

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distance between pitches

Question 27

Key

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working with a given tonal framework; gives a particular framework

Question 28

Meter

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Modes

Answer 29

way, manner of the pitches

Question 30

Modulation

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

Question 31

Monophony

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Motive

Question 33

Non-pulsatile

Answer 33

can't find pulse 1234, 1234

Question 34

Octave

Question 35

Ostinato

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

Question 36

Pentatonic

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7 pitches in a scale

Question 37

Pitch

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determined by frequency

Question 38

Polyphonic

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Polyrhythms

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rhythms come in one at a time and stack them up

Question 40

Polytonal

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all at a different key at the same time

Question 41

Program Music

Question 42

Pulsatile

Question 43

Range

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high and low

Question 44

Rhapsodic

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

Question 45

Rhythm

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

Question 46

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)

Question 47

Scale

Question 48

Song Cycle

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

Question 49

Strophic

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

Question 50

Suite

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number of instrumental dances strung together in a set

Question 51

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

Question 52

Tempo

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

Question 53

Ternary

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

Question 54

Texture

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

Question 55

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

Question 57

Timbre

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

Question 58

Tonality

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Tonic

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the key note

Question 60

Triple

Question 61

Tuning

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

Question 62

Variations

Answer 62

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

Question 63

Vibrations

Answer 63

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