Music 101 Def

Question 1

Any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source.

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Tone

Question 2

Measures the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time.

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Frequency

Question 3

The study of the physical characteristics of sound. It deals with things like the frequency, amplitude and complexity of sound waves and how sound waves interact with various environments. It can also refer casually and generally to the over-all quality of sound in a given place. Someone might say in a non-technical conversation: “I like to perform at Smith Hall; the acoustics are very bright.”

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Acoustics

Question 4

The amount of loudness in music

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Dynamics

Question 5

Tone quality or tone color in music

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Timbre

Question 6

Random, unorganized sound waves.

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Noise

Question 7

The word “duration” indicates the time period over which an event occurs. In music, duration is the time interval over which a tone is sustained.

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Duration

Question 8

A series of pitches that form a cohesive entity.

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Melody

Question 9

The melody basis of a larger work.

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Theme

Question 10

A short musical idea. A fragment upon which to build??

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Motive

Question 11

Two or more independent lines with melodic character occurring at the same time.

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Counter-point

Question 12

A tonic is scale degree one, the keynote of a scale. The note or chord where a song ends…it is what the ear is expecting as the end note. ??

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Tonal Center

Question 13

The ordered flow of music through time.

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Rhythm

Question 14

The regular pulse of music

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Beat

Question 15

The grouping of the pulses in music

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Meter

Question 16

The emphasis placed on a note, usually by playing it louder

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Accent

Question 17

The displacement of an accent so that it occurs where it is not normally expected or does not occur where it is expected.

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Syncopation

Question 18

Rate of speed.

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Tempo

Question 19

Have many rhythms…Polyrhythms are a combination of two different beat patterns in the same amount of time.

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Polyrhythmic

Question 20

An audible distance between two pitches.

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Interval

Question 21

A group of simultaneous sounds that seems agreeable or restful.

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Consonance

Question 22

A group of simultaneous sounds that seems disagreeable or harsh.

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Dissonance

Question 23

A series of pitches that proceeds upward or downward according to a prescribed pattern.

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Scale

Question 24

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Key

Question 25

A change in key.

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Modulation

Question 26

A major scale is a series of seven different pitches within an octave, with half steps between the third and fourth steps and the seventh and eighth steps. A major triad is built off of three tones: the first and second tones being 4 half steps apart, and the second and third tones being 3 half steps apart.

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Major

Question 27

A minor scale is a series of seven pitches within an octave, with a half step between the second and third steps. A minor triad is built off of three tones: the first and second tones being 3 half steps apart, and the second and third tones being 4 half steps apart.

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Minor

Question 28

A three note chord that can be stacked in thirds. When actually stacked in thirds, they form the lowest pitched tone to the highest, are called The Root The Third, whose interval is a major or minor third above The Root. The Fifth, whose interval is a major or minor third above the third and a diminished, perfect or augmented fifth above The Root

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Triad

Question 29

Three or more notes played at once

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Chord

Question 30

The way we organize musical ideas

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Form

Question 31

the perceived density of sound

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Texture

Question 32

One melodic line without any accompaniment

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Monophonic

Question 33

The texture consisting of a line of melody with accompaniment. (well structured, chordal harmony)

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Homophonic

Question 34

Music in which two or more melodic lines of approximately equal importance are sounded at the same time.

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Polyphonic

Question 35

Grouping of music with similar characteristics.

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Style