Definitions for Final Exam

Question 1

rhythm

Answer 1

duration of time of notes in music

Question 2

meter

Answer 2

accent of the music

Question 3

measure

Answer 3

a temporal unit that composers indicate with bar lines; tonal music usually has measures of the same length and strong/weak beats

Question 4

phrase

Answer 4

group of sounds; shortest passage of music that reaches a point of repose, expresses complete musical thought

Question 5

hypermeasure

Answer 5

all the same length, have the same underlying pattern of strong/weak beats

Question 6

hypermeter

Answer 6

regular grouping of measures

Question 7

syncopation

Answer 7

displacement of the natural accent

Question 8

hemiola

Answer 8

two groups of three beats become three groups of two beats, but the time signature never changed

Question 9

sentence form

Answer 9

A - A’ - B // 1 - 1 - 2

Question 10

cadence

Answer 10

a point of repose

Question 11

authentic cadence

Answer 11

V goes to I

Question 12

perfect authentic cadence

Answer 12

V goes to I and the soprano has the tonic of the I chord

Question 13

imperfect authentic cadence

Answer 13

V goes to I but the soprano does not have the tonic of the I chord

Question 14

half cadence

Answer 14

a point of repose ending on the V chord

Question 15

period

Answer 15

group of two or more phrases that have some kind of interdependence

Question 16

period form

Answer 16

group of two or more phrases that have some kind of similarity, maybe in rhythm or chords (PERIODDTTT)

Question 17

fore phrase

Answer 17

comes before

Question 18

after phrase

Answer 18

comes after

Question 19

antecedent

Answer 19

fore phrase that ends with half cadence (V chord)

Question 20

parallel period

Answer 20

period where the fore and after phrases are melodically similar, both in rhythm and melody

Question 21

parallel interrupted period

Answer 21

parallel period where the fore phrase ends with a half cadence (V chord)

Question 22

contrasting period

Answer 22

period where the fore and after phrases are not melodically similar

Question 23

phrase group

Answer 23

group of phrases that form a unit, but don’t end in a complete cadence

Question 24

double period form

Answer 24

a period that has antecedent and consequent units, two phrases each, second phrase ends in half cadence and fourth phrase ends in PAC