Elements of music

Question 1

Music is an _________ sound

Answer 1

Organized

Question 2

What’s the definition of music

Answer 2

Music is an art form, it uses organized sound, as it means of expression, through the manipulation of the elements of music

Question 3

What is rhythm

Answer 3

Rhythm is the controlled movements of music in time

Question 4

What does Rhythm effect

Answer 4

“How long a tone is played The speed of which the tones are heard The regularity or irregularity with which tones are heard”

Question 5

What is pitch

Answer 5

Pitch is the physical frequency of sound. It is the highness or lowness of sound

Question 6

What is melody

Answer 6

“Melody is the ordering of single tones Rhythm + pitch= melody”

Question 7

What is melody sometimes called

Answer 7

Soul of music

Question 8

What’s an example of timbre

Answer 8

“A flute sounds different from a trumpet How you can hear the difference from your mothers voice then your fathers”

Question 9

What are the six dynamics in letters

Answer 9

“PP P MP MF F FF”

Question 10

What are the six dynamics in Italian

Answer 10

“Pianissimo Piano Mezzo piano Mezzo forte Forte Fortissimo”

Question 11

What are the six dynamics in English

Answer 11

“Very soft Soft Medium soft Medium loud Loud Very loud”

Question 12

What does crescendo and decrescendo mean

Answer 12

Gradually get loud and gradually get softer

Question 13

What is texture

Answer 13

Texture is the complexity of a musical composition

Question 14

What are the three types of textures

Answer 14

Monophonic, polyphonic, and homophonic

Question 15

What’s the definition of monophonic and an example

Answer 15

One unaccompanied melody (it doesn’t have an harmony) an example is an choir singing in octaves

Question 16

What’s the definition of homophonic and an example

Answer 16

A homophonic is a single line of melody or multiple lines of melody with chords or accompaniment. An example is a flute solo with an piano accompaniment.mother instruments playing a chord (not a melody) at the same time

Question 17

What is a music form

Answer 17

A music form is the overall structure or plan of a piece of music.

Question 18

What are the music forms

Answer 18

Binary AB, ternaryABA, rondoABACA

Question 19

What is an binary AB

Answer 19

binary form has 2 musical ideas that alternate. The music always ends on the second idea

Question 20

What tenary ABA

Answer 20

ternary form has 2 musical ideas that alternate. The music must end on the first idea

Question 21

What is rondo ABACA

Answer 21

The first idea always repeated before and after the sections

Question 22

What’s theme and variation

Answer 22

Theme and variation has one short melody, main melody, it is slightly or substantially changed and repeated several times. Variations are indicated with superscript

Question 23

Can elements of music be changed

Answer 23

Any of the elements of music may be changed in a variation but the melody is still recognized

Question 24

What is canon

Answer 24

This form begins with a melody after a measured amount of time, introduces an imitation of that Melody. Canon in strict imitation and at the same pitch are called rounds

Question 25

Types of canon imitation

Answer 25

“Augmentation (longer note values) Diminution (shorter note value) Retrograde (original melody in reverse) Mirror (the intervals of the original are played in contrary motion)”

Question 26

What is a fugue

Answer 26

A fugue uses counterpoints

Question 27

What are counterpoints,

Answer 27

A counterpoint is where multiple melodic lines can be followed independently but together form harmony

Question 28

How many voices does a fugue have

Answer 28

2 or more voices, it begins with a subject (theme) and then each additional voice that begins in imitation. The second time a subject appears it will be in a different key and is called the answer

Question 29

How many parts does a fugue have and name them

Answer 29

“It has three parts Exposition Development Recapitulation”

Question 30

What happens during exposition

Answer 30

The subject or theme is stated all other voices eventually enter and state the same theme but at different pitches. Then an episode happens and changes keys

Question 31

What’s the development

Answer 31

The main theme may be heard in fragments but each voice is developed and varied. Counter expositions may occur. These are new themes that occur in reverse order. False entered and stereo may occur. Stretto is where the voices interrupt each other to intensify the music

Question 32

What is recapitulation

Answer 32

The piece returns to the original key the theme returns, usually over a pedal note

Question 33

What’s a motif

Answer 33

A motif is a recurring fragment or succession of noted it is used to create part or all of a melody or theme.

Question 34

What can a motif be

Answer 34

Harmonic, melodic, rhythmic

Question 35

What is a motif called if its associated with a person or a place

Answer 35

A leitmotif Peter and wolf uses leitmotif or each animal in the story

Question 36

What is sonata form

Answer 36

Sonata form consists of an exposition a development and a recapitulation

Question 37

A theme is the

Answer 37

A theme is the initial or primary melody of a piece of music

Question 38

What is the exposition for sonata

Answer 38

The exposition determines the key and modulates to the dominant by the end of the section. The dominant is the chord build on the 5th note of a scale. This is where the musical themes motif it’s are first heard

Question 39

What is the development in the sonata form

Answer 39

The development is the middle section where the material from the other exposition is expanded and elaborated

Question 40

What’s the recapitulation in sonata form

Answer 40

What is heard in the exposition but alters it in some way