Chapter 4

Question 1

Harmony

Answer 1

Simultaneous pitches
accompaniment of melody

Question 2

Chords

Answer 2

groupings of simultaneous pitches

Question 3

Consonance

Answer 3

Sounds pleasing or at rest

Question 4

Dissonance

Answer 4

Sounds discordant, creates tension
creates a desire to resolve to consonance

Question 5

Texture

Answer 5

the relationship between a melody and all other lines

Question 6

How to identify texture

Answer 6

How many melodic lines do you hear?
Are all the lines interesting?
How similar/different are they?

Question 7

How to identify lines

Answer 7

melody only?
more than one melody?
any chords, figures, bass lines, countermelodies?

Question 8

Are all the lines equally interesting?

Answer 8

is there a foreground/background?
Is there one main melody?
hard to tell which is the melody?

Question 9

How different are the lines?

Answer 9

Same or different rhythms?
same or different melodies?

Question 10

Monophonic texture

Answer 10

only one line; nothing else

Question 11

Homophonic texture

Answer 11

two or more lines
one main melody with other parts (chords)

Question 12

Polyphonic texture

Answer 12

two or more lines
all competing to be the most important

Question 13

imitative

Answer 13

same melodies

Question 14

non-imitative

Answer 14

different melodies

Question 15

Tonality

Answer 15

Musical center
feeling of a “home” pitch

Question 16

Tonal

Answer 16

having sense of tonality (center/”home” pitch)

Question 17

Atonal

Answer 17

absence of tonality (no center/”home”pitch)

Question 18

Tonic pitch

Answer 18

the “home” pitch toward which other pitches lead
The first note of a scale
the most stable pitch

Question 19

Modality

Answer 19

Major vs minor scales

Question 20

Major scale

Answer 20

do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do

Question 21

Minor scale

Answer 21

Major: C D E F G A B C
Minor: A B C D E F G A

Question 22

Major vs. minor scales

Answer 22

MAJOR:
begin with 2 whole steps
end with a half step
tend to sound brighter, happier

MINOR:
begin with a whole step and half step
end with a whole step
tend to sound darker, sadder

Question 23

Key

Answer 23

scales can begin on any note on the keyboard

Question 24

Modulation

Answer 24

Changing to a different key, creates new tonal center