Ch.1 Bio-Basics Flashcards
Absolute Music
makes no reference to music outside of itself; purely instrumental music
Accentuation
stresses a sound
Amplitude
the amount of force exerted on the vibrating medium; the greater the force the louder the sound
Antiphonal
back and forth between two groups; one group responds to the other
Binary
2 parts (A, B)
Call-and-response
gives a lead group or solo acquire that respond to each other
Colotomic
Indonesia; the architectural layout of music in Indonesia Gamelan
Contour
melodies have shapes, direction
Crescendo
a gradual increase in the volume of music
Decrescendo
a gradual decrease in the volume of music
Descriptive Music
program music; describe sections, place, person,etc
Developmental Form
sonata forms, Introduction;It refers to the transformation and restatement of initial material; retransition (theme;theme 2)
Dramatic Music
musical-dramatic production wrapped around a drama; opera
Drone
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
Duple
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
Dynamics
Ethnomusicology
study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
Figure
Frequency
pitch of a sound/note; wavelengths; the greater the frequency the higher the pitch
Function of Music
music bound up with all aspects of living all aspects of life cycle (ex: birth-death); utilitarian music
Harmony
Hemiola
2s and 3s put together creating cross-beading; crossing them over
Heterophony
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
Hexatonic
describing the # of pitches in a given scale (6 pitches)
Homphony
texture in music; notes moving at the same time no rhythmic independence
Interval
distance between pitches
Key
working with a given tonal framework; gives a particular framework
Meter
Modes
way, manner of the pitches
Modulation
moving to another tonal space to another or another key to another
Monophony
Motive
Non-pulsatile
can’t find pulse 1234, 1234
Octave
Ostinato
(rigid, stubborn) pattern or rhythmic pattern repeated stubbornly; music repeats the same rhythmic pattern throughout the whole song
Pentatonic
7 pitches in a scale
Pitch
determined by frequency
Polyphonic
Polyrhythms
rhythms come in one at a time and stack them up
Polytonal
all at a different key at the same time
Program Music
Pulsatile
Range
high and low
Rhapsodic
rhapsodia; heroic; portray something heroic; one motion to another
Rhythm
B,C pulses, meter; movement and motion, time pulse-rhythmic pattern; sound moving through time and space
Rondo
musical material stated at the beginning of the piece keeps returning (ex; A,B,A,C,A,D,A,C,A,B,A)
Scale
Song Cycle
poems in music, music wrapped around literary models; put into a set
Strophic
each stanza and verses and different texts form of music stays the same
Suite
number of instrumental dances strung together in a set
Syncopation
(rhythmic) alteration and disturbing weak beat pattern; to cut short, what happens when you change the stress pattern of music
Tempo
velocity; rate of speed; how fast the music move- allegro, metronome, and presto
Ternary
3 parts of different material (A,B,A)
Texture
thin/thick texture in music; stacking (or not) of music
Theme
Through-Composed
architecture in music; doesn’t go back and repeat anything; new sound content all the…; no repeats on section ideas
Timbre
tone color; every sound is made up of a harmonics; every sound is gonna be different
Tonality
Tonic
the key note
Triple
Tuning
adjusting the frequency; having everyone on the same “wavelength” (vibrations)
Variations
take a tune or melody that is varied in many ways that you think you can do it
Vibrations
all songs come from a vibration; Musical instruments create sounds by making something vibrating
