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Chapter 1 basics Flashcards

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1
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Name the spaces in the treble clef

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FACE

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2
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Name the lines in the treble clef

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EGBDF

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3
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How many beats is a semibreve worth?

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4 beats

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4
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How many beats is a minim worth

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2 beats

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5
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How many beats is a crochet worth

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1 beat

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6
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what are these ♫

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quavers

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7
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Largo

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Slowly

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8
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Rallentando

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Gradually slowing down

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9
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Allegro

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Fast

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10
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vivace

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Lively

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11
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Rubato

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Rhythms played freely for expressive effect

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12
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Ritenuto

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immediately slower

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13
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Tempo

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How fast or slow

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14
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Dynamics

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how loud or quiet

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15
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A capella

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voice singing on its own

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16
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Monophonic

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1 melody on its own

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17
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Homophonic

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melody with accompaniment

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18
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Which family of instruments does saxophone belong to

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woodwind

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19
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Syncopation

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off-beat

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20
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What does diatonic mean

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melody uses only notes from the key signature

21
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Chromatic harmony

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Using notes that do not belong to the key signature

22
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Dissonance

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Harsh, clashing sounding harmony

23
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Consonant

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Harmony that sounds more pleasant

24
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Cadence

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two chords at end of a phrase

25
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Perfect Cadence

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Chords V-I Sound finished

26
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Imperfect cadence

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Sounds unfinished usually rests on chord V

27
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Interrupted cadences

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Expect piece to sound finished but the final chord is not chord 1

28
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Plagal cadence

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chord IV to I (Amen cadence)

29
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tonal music

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Is in a major or minor key

30
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Atonal

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Is not related to a tonic note and has no sense of key

31
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Modulation

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A piece changing key

32
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Binary form

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A piece of music in two sections

33
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Ternary

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A piece of music in three sections

34
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Cadenza

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An improvised solo based on the music heard before.

35
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Timbre

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The characteristic individual sound or tone colour of an instrument

36
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Pizzicato

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Strings plucked instead of bowed

37
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Vibrato

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small and rapid changes to the pitch of a note

38
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Double-stopping

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String players bow two notes simultaneously on adjacent strings

39
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Tremolo

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String effect Literally means trembling - produced by rapid up and down movements of the bow on strings

40
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Polyphonic texture describes.

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Two or more different tunes played at the same time

41
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unison

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Everyone playing or singing the same notes at the same time

42
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octaves

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distance from one note to the next note with same letter eg C-C

43
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Accompaniment

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Usually the parts that don’t play the tune

44
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scale

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a series of notes, in order, going up or down in pitch.

45
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arpeggio

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notes of the chord are spread out and played one after each other usually

46
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Broken Chord

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playing the notes of a chord one after each other

47
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trill

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rapid playing of two notes next to each other

48
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chromatic interval

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smallest interval on a keyboard - one semitone

49
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Sequence

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a melody which is repeated straight after but is higher or lower in pitch

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