Chapters 1-12

Question 1

contour

Answer 1

how it moves up and down;

Question 2

range

Answer 2

span of pitches; distance between the lowest and highest notes; narrow, medium and wide

Question 3

conjuct

Answer 3

melody that moves in small connected intervals

Question 4

disjunct

Answer 4

moves in leaps; larger disconnected intervals

Question 5

phrase

Answer 5

unit that make up a melody or musical sentence

Question 6

cadence

Answer 6

phrases that end in resting places

Question 7

rhyme scheme

Answer 7

poetic phrases; a-b-a-b

Question 8

countermelody

Answer 8

melody may be accompanied by a secondary melody

Question 9

rhythm

Answer 9

what moves music forward in time, length or duration of notes

Question 10

beat

Answer 10

basic unit of rhythm, a regular pulse that divides time into equal segments

Question 11

accent

Answer 11

beats that are stronger

Question 12

simple meters

Answer 12

duple, triple and quadruple

Question 13

compound meters

Answer 13

divide each beat into 3 rather than 2

Question 14

syncopation

Answer 14

accent shifted to a weak beat or an off beat

Question 15

additive meters

Answer 15

patterns built from combos

Question 16

nonmetric

Answer 16

obscured pulse, music without a strong sense of beat

Question 17

harmony

Answer 17

describes the vertical aspects of music; how notes sound together

Question 18

chord

Answer 18

simultaneous sounding of 3 or more pitches

Question 19

scale

Answer 19

sequence of pitches

Question 20

octave

Answer 20

interval spanning 8 notes; do re mi fa sol la ti do

Question 21

triad

Answer 21

3 alternate pitches of a scale; 3 note cord; 1-3-5

Question 22

tonic

Answer 22

central pitch around which a melody and its harmonies are built; 1st note of scale

Question 23

major tonality

Answer 23

happy

Question 24

minor tonality

Answer 24

sad

Question 25

diatonic

Answer 25

scale of 7 whole and half steps

Question 26

chromatic

Answer 26

scale made up of all 12 half steps

Question 27

dissonance

Answer 27

created by an unstable combo of pitches

Question 28

consonance

Answer 28

occurs with a resolution of dissonance producing a stable or restful sound

Question 29

drone

Answer 29

1 or 2 notes in bass; no chord; dronedronedrone

Question 30

melody

Answer 30

a line or tune in music; a succession of single pitches that we perceive as a recognizable whole

Question 31

pentatonic scale

Answer 31

five note scale, black keys on piano