Exam 1 Flashcards
The line or tune in a piece of music
Melody
A way to connect a melody using small jumps between notes
Conjunct
A way to name a melody in which the more connect through large leaps.
Disjunct
What moves music forward in time.
Rhythm
The basic units of a song.
Beat
Organizes music into individual sections, marked off by measures.
Meter
Shows how many beats are in a meter.
Time Signature
The stress or lack of stress placed on a note.
Accent
A way for a composer to make a part of their song offbeat on purpose in order to cause a listener to be caught off guard.
Syncopation
Comes at the end of a section of music or at the end of the piece.
Cadence
Created by a nice, calm connection of music.
Consonance
Creates an unstable and unpleasant sounding piece of music.
Dissonance
The music layers and how they relate and the 3 types.
Texture, Polyphonic, homophonic, monophonic.
Features repeated music for each stanzas of text.
Strophic form
A-B form
Binary
A-B-A form
Ternary form
Three slow tempo
LAG, Adagio, Largo, Grave
Three fast tempos
PAV, Presto, Vivace, Allegro
To speed up the tempo
Accelerando (deccelerando to slow down)
Soft and loud dynamic markings
Piano(soft), Forte(loud)
Gradually get louder/softer, tempo wise.
Crescendo, Descrescendo
One note per syllable
Syllabic
Any notes per syllable
Melismatic
A few notes per syllable, but never gets overly complicated
Neumatic
What an instrument actually sounds like
Tone color
