Exam 1

Question 1

What is timbre?

Answer 1

The tone color

Question 2

What is the pitch

Answer 2

The highness or lowness of sound

Question 3

What us melody

Answer 3

The tune or line in the music (the part you hum)

Question 4

What is the interval

Answer 4

Distance between two pitches, space between two notes

Question 5

What is the range

Answer 5

pam of pitches such as high or low pitches

Question 6

What is the beat

Answer 6

The steady and pulse

Question 7

Rhythm

Answer 7

what makes music move like the flow

Question 8

Meter

Answer 8

quad 4 beats triple- 3 beats

rhythmic pattern

Question 9

Syncopation

Answer 9

Takes a normal beat and emphasizes it

Question 10

What is harmony

Answer 10

More than one note sounding simultaneously. The vertical aspects of music; how notes (pitches) sound together

Question 11

Chords

Answer 11

simultaneous sounding of three or more pitches

Question 12

Scale

Answer 12

Sequence of pitches or notes

Question 13

Triad

Answer 13

three alternating pitches of a scale

Question 14

Dissonance

Answer 14

created by an unstable or discordant, combination of pitches

Question 15

Consonance

Answer 15

n agreeable sounding combination of notes that provides a sense of relaxation & fulfillment’

Question 16

Tonic

Answer 16

is the central pitch around which a melody and its harmonies are built; the name of the scale, basenote

Question 17

Modulation

Answer 17

gradually changing the pitches likely going to back to the og piece; within in the piece

Question 18

Transposition

Answer 18

changing keys into a new piece of music; before it play or after

Question 19

Monophonic

Answer 19

only one melodic line - by itself

Question 20

Homophonic

Answer 20

Texture in which all voices move together, the same words melody supported by chords

Question 21

Polyphonic

Answer 21

when two or more melodic line are moving combined - more than one line going on

Question 22

Strophic form

Answer 22

same thing over and over, same notes, good ex. Mary had a little lamb

Question 23

Binary form

Answer 23

when an a and b section are different like verse and chorus

Question 24

Ternanry form

Answer 24

a and b and goes back to a but not b

Question 25

Through composed form

Answer 25

change it as you go, they are all different;

Question 26

Improvisation

Answer 26

make it up as you go on, make up on the spot

Question 27

Ostinato

Answer 27

musical figure that repeats over and over again

Question 28

Movement

Answer 28

very long work empath its broken its movements, they can short or long, usually related to musical idea or subject matter, usually start slower and then finish with faster

Question 29

Piano

Answer 29

P -soft

Question 30

Messo

Answer 30

M -medium

Question 31

Forte

Answer 31

F -loud

Question 32

Pianissimo

Answer 32

More thane one pp -very soft

Question 33

Fortissimo

Answer 33

More than ff -very loud

Question 34

Crescendo

Answer 34

Gets louder

Question 35

Decrescendo

Answer 35

Gets softer >

Question 36

Tempo

Answer 36

Speed of the beat

Question 37

Adagio

Answer 37

In slow tempo

Question 38

Andante

Answer 38

Walking peace

Question 39

Allegro

Answer 39

Fast quick and bright

Question 40

Presto

Answer 40

Very fast

Question 41

Accelerando

Answer 41

Gradually play fatser

Question 42

Ritardando

Answer 42

Gradually slow down

Question 43

Sacred music

Answer 43

Muisc intended for worship

Question 44

Secular music

Answer 44

Muisc not tended for worship

Question 45

Syllabuc

Answer 45

One note per syballe

Question 46

Melismatic

Answer 46

take one syllable and add extra syllables or notes

Question 47

Neumatic

Answer 47

add one syllable

Question 48

Word painting

Answer 48

Text of a song says something and the music reflects that; making the music matches the lyrics of a song