music 100 terms WEEK ONE

Question 1

In terms of human experience, what is time?

Answer 1

The sensation of the past, present, and future.

Question 2

What makes time seem to have a direction?

Answer 2

When the present seems like a consequent of the past, and when past and present imply a future.

Question 3

How can music direct time?

Answer 3

By organizing and presenting sounds to influence our perception of time.

Question 4

What is “Loudness” as an immediately perceptible property of sound?

Answer 4

Loudness is how much the sound dominates our perception.

Question 5

What is “Timbre” as an immediately perceptible property of sound?

Answer 5

Timbre is what is making the sound and how.

Question 6

What is “Pitch” as an immediately perceptible property of sound?

Answer 6

Pitch is the quantity of the sounds with the same loudness and timbre differ. (In pitch)

Question 7

What is a score?

Answer 7

Instruction for producing a sound.

Question 8

What type of notation is the straight line?

Answer 8

Time proportional and piano roll

Question 9

What is duration?

Answer 9

The time that passes from an earlier time point to a later one.

Question 10

What is accent?

Answer 10

The emphasis of the timepoint.

Question 11

What creates accent?

Answer 11

Abrupt and substantial change.

Question 12

What is a musical process?

Answer 12

An activity that makes a present experience seem like it is a consequence of past experiences and that enables the listener to anticipate a future.

Question 13

What is continuity?

Answer 13

Continuity is the sense of connection from an earlier to a later timepoint. It can be sensed during a sound, or in a series (ex. melody) of sounds, possibly including silences.

Question 14

What is sustaining?

Answer 14

The process that creates an uninterrupted sound.

Sustaining is one way to create continuity.

Question 15

What makes this series of sounds (as played in lecture) a voice?

Answer 15

Voice is a series of sounds (+ silences) from a single source.

Question 16

What is rhythm?

Answer 16

Series of consecutive durations.

Question 17

What is dynamic accent?

Answer 17

The stress that we feel on the onset of a sound that is clearly louder than the preceding sound.

Question 18

What does “fp” mean?

Answer 18

Forte Piano, Loud onset then sustained softer play.

Question 19

What is durational accent?

Answer 19

Stress at the onset of a sound that is clearly longer than the preceding sound.

Question 20

Define “intensification”

Answer 20

The gradual increase in some immediately perceptible property.

Question 21

Define “Diminishmment”

Answer 21

The gradual decrease in some immediately perceptible property.

Question 22

DYNAMICS

Answer 22

Fortississimo - fff - Very very loud
Fortissimo - ff - Very loud
Forte - f - Loud
Mezzo - mf - Somewhat loud
Mezzo piano - mp - Somewhat soft
Piano - p - piano
Pianissimo - pp - very soft
Pianississimo - ppp - very very soft

Question 23

What are the four different types of articulation we discussed?

Answer 23

1) Detached articulation
2) Legato
3) Staccato
4) Tenuto

Question 24

What is interonset duration?

Answer 24

Time that passes from on onset to the next onset (including rests) etc.