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Final Flashcards

1
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Melody

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A line or tune in music

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2
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Rhythm

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What moves music forward in time

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3
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Meter

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Organizes Bears (duple, triple, quadruple)
each beat divided into two

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4
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dissonance

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Unstable or distorted combinations of music

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5
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Polyphony

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two or more voices

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6
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Consonance

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Producing stable sounds

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7
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Monophony

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Single voice

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8
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Form

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Organizing principle in music

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9
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Binary Form

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Two parts (a-B) B sounds different

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10
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Ternary form

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three parts ABA

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11
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Ostinato

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Repetition of short melodic lines

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12
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Tempo

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Rate of speed for music

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13
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Dynamics

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Volume of music

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14
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Secular

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Non-religious music

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15
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Sacred

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REligious music

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16
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Aerophones

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Needs air to create sound

17
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Chordophones

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strings ( violins, guitars)

18
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Membranophones

19
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Idiophones

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Stike/hit/shake

20
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Strings

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Guitar harp banjo

21
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Woodwinds

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Flutes Clarinet saxophones

22
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brass

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trumpet french horn

23
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a cappella

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voice only

24
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string quartet

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two violins

25
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Vernacular

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language of the people

26
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Troubadours

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Southern france traveled musicians

27
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Plainchant

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Features monophonic non- melodic melodics

28
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Ars Nova

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New art early 1300s

29
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Madrigal

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Secular choral Music

30
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opera

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New genre in the baroque period

31
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Aria

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song tune in italian

32
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Church Cantatas

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Bach written for the lutheran church

33
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Oratorio

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Large scale dramatic music

34
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Concerto

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genre that generally featured a solo instrument or small group of soloist

35
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Program Music

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Instrumental music sacred (no staging or costumes)

36
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Fugue

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Melodies overlapping/ polyphonic form

Music Appreciation (3 decks)

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