Music 101 Def Flashcards
Any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source.
Tone
Measures the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time.
Frequency
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.”
Acoustics
The amount of loudness in music
Dynamics
Tone quality or tone color in music
Timbre
Random, unorganized sound waves.
Noise
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.
Duration
A series of pitches that form a cohesive entity.
Melody
The melody basis of a larger work.
Theme
A short musical idea. A fragment upon which to build??
Motive
Two or more independent lines with melodic character occurring at the same time.
Counter-point
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. ??
Tonal Center
The ordered flow of music through time.
Rhythm
The regular pulse of music
Beat
The grouping of the pulses in music
Meter
The emphasis placed on a note, usually by playing it louder
Accent
The displacement of an accent so that it occurs where it is not normally expected or does not occur where it is expected.
Syncopation
Rate of speed.
Tempo
Have many rhythms…Polyrhythms are a combination of two different beat patterns in the same amount of time.
Polyrhythmic
An audible distance between two pitches.
Interval
A group of simultaneous sounds that seems agreeable or restful.
Consonance
A group of simultaneous sounds that seems disagreeable or harsh.
Dissonance
A series of pitches that proceeds upward or downward according to a prescribed pattern.
Scale
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Key
A change in key.
Modulation
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.
Major
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.
Minor
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
Triad
Three or more notes played at once
Chord
The way we organize musical ideas
Form
the perceived density of sound
Texture
One melodic line without any accompaniment
Monophonic
The texture consisting of a line of melody with accompaniment. (well structured, chordal harmony)
Homophonic
Music in which two or more melodic lines of approximately equal importance are sounded at the same time.
Polyphonic
Grouping of music with similar characteristics.
Style
