Elements Of Music Flashcards
Phrases
Music mimics speech with incomplete and complete sentences
Melody
A single line of notes heard in succession as a coherent unit
Has shape moves up or down
Harmony
The sound created by multiple voices playing or singing together
Chord
Three or more notes surrounding simultaneously
2 or more notes
Triad
Three or more notes surrounding simultaneously
3 or more notes
Meter
Underlying pattern of beats
Multiples of 2 or three
Disjunct
When notes are far apart
Rhythm
The ordering of music through time
Cadences
Points of arrival, melody comes to rest, speaker pauses to take breath
Contour
Upward or downward movement, or both
Conjunct
When the notes of a melody are close together
Texture
Based on number and general knowledge of musical lines or voices
Relative thickness or thinness
Texture: monophonic
One single melodic line with no accompaniment
One sound
Texture: homophonic
A single melodic line with accompaniment
Same sound
Texture: polyphonic
Multiple melodies or equal importance
Timbre
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
Dynamics
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
Form
The architecture of music
A melody is usually too short to constitute a complete work of music melodies can be repeated varied
Word-music relationships
How words shape what we hear
Consider relationship of the words to music
Use this when listening to music with words
Genres
Categories of music
Shapes your expectations of what we’re likely to experience
Voices
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)
