Elements Of Music

Question 0

Phrases

Answer 0

Music mimics speech with incomplete and complete sentences

Question 1

Melody

Answer 1

A single line of notes heard in succession as a coherent unit
Has shape moves up or down

Question 2

Harmony

Answer 2

The sound created by multiple voices playing or singing together

Question 3

Chord

Answer 3

Three or more notes surrounding simultaneously

2 or more notes

Question 4

Triad

Answer 4

Three or more notes surrounding simultaneously

3 or more notes

Question 5

Meter

Answer 5

Underlying pattern of beats

Multiples of 2 or three

Question 6

Disjunct

Answer 6

When notes are far apart

Question 7

Rhythm

Answer 7

The ordering of music through time

Question 8

Cadences

Answer 8

Points of arrival, melody comes to rest, speaker pauses to take breath

Question 9

Contour

Answer 9

Upward or downward movement, or both

Question 10

Conjunct

Answer 10

When the notes of a melody are close together

Question 11

Texture

Answer 11

Based on number and general knowledge of musical lines or voices
Relative thickness or thinness

Question 12

Texture: monophonic

Answer 12

One single melodic line with no accompaniment

One sound

Question 13

Texture: homophonic

Answer 13

A single melodic line with accompaniment

Same sound

Question 14

Texture: polyphonic

Answer 14

Multiple melodies or equal importance

Question 15

Timbre

Answer 15

The color of music
Character of a sound
Same melody sounds very different when performed by different instruments
What make instruments and voices sound very different from one another

Question 16

Dynamics

Answer 16

Loud and soft
Volume
The same music can be performed at varying degrees of volume
Determine volume of given work or passage in a work of music

Question 17

Form

Answer 17

The architecture of music

A melody is usually too short to constitute a complete work of music melodies can be repeated varied

Question 18

Word-music relationships

Answer 18

How words shape what we hear
Consider relationship of the words to music
Use this when listening to music with words

Question 19

Genres

Answer 19

Categories of music

Shapes your expectations of what we’re likely to experience

Question 20

Voices

Answer 20

Range: based on physical makeup and training 
Vocal methods and style vary by culture
Female: 
Soprano(high)
Mezzo(medium high)
Alto(low) 

Male:
Tenor(high)
Baritone(medium high)
Base(low)