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Midterm Flashcards

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Distance between two notes

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Interval

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The frequency of a sound

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Pitch

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2
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Interval 8 notes apart

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Octave

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3
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Loudness or softness of a sound

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Dynamics

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4
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What are the four voice types

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SATB

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5
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Class of instruments the have holes that open/ close by keys/fingers

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Woodwinds

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6
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Sound is produced by buzzing lips

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Brass

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7
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Things that you hit or shake

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Percussion

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8
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Strings that are plucked

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Strings

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9
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Speed of a sound

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Tempo

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10
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Main part of a song

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Melody

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11
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Different notes played/sang with melody

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Harmony

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12
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Series of notes played up and down

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Scale

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13
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Music one note at a time

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Monophonic

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14
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5 parallel lines that notes are written on

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Staff

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15
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Marks higher pitch notes

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Treble clef

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16
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Marks lower pitch notes

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Bass clef

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17
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Short part of written music that divided by measure lines

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Measure

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18
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Higher in pitch, shorter

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Sharp

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19
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Lower in pitch, longer

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Flat

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20
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Not much written record, no method of writing/ printing musi

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Middle Ages

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21
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Most music controlled by church

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Middle Ages

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Music was monophonic, vocal, a Capella.

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Middle Ages

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Important middle age composers

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Machaut and Palestrina

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No clear rhythm to music

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Middle Ages

25
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Women were forbidden to play music in public or church

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Middle Ages

26
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Music moves from churches to courts, leisure

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Renaissance

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Secular music grows

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Renaissance

28
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Printing methods developed

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Renaissance

29
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Music starts to focus on emotion

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Renaissance

30
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More flowing rhythm to the beat

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Renaissance

31
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Harmony used more

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Renaissance

32
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More instrumental music appears

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Renaissance

33
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Orchestras grew to as many as 60 people

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Renaissance

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Women restricted to performing in convents

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Renaissance

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Composers and musicians hired/comissioned

36
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Music used in churches, courts, public performances, and opera

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Music is focused with one mood and relating rhythms

38
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Sudden changes in volume

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Terraced dynamics

39
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Composers of baroque time

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Bach Handel and Purcell

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A musical play

41
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Song for instruments

42
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Church vocal composition

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Large vocal composition that tells a story

44
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Vocal solo in an opera

45
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Dialog in an opera.. Could have been said but is sang

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Recitative

46
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Bachs death led to a..

47
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Music education more valued and accessible to middle class

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Classical period

48
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Musicians work freelance instead of patronage

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Emotions, dynamics, and rhythms change during song

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More and more instruments.. Size grew.. Sound changed

51
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Large composition for orchestra, 3 or more movements

52
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Composition for featured solo instrument with orchestra

53
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Wooden frame, ancestor to piano

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Fortepiano

54
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Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

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Producers of classical period

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