music history

Question 1

Rythm

Answer 1

is what moves music forward in time

Question 2

Meter

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marked off in “Measures” or bars, organizes the “beats” (the basic units) in music

Question 3

Measure

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Bars in music

Question 4

Rhytm complexities

Answer 4

Off beat, syncopation, polyrhythm

Question 5

non metric

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obscured beat

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melody

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a line or tune in music

Question 7

contour

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how the melody moves up and down in range or pitch. overall shape

Question 8

interval

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distance between any two pitches

Question 9

Conjuct

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a melody that moves in Small connected intervals

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Disjunct

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a melody that moves by leaps

Question 11

phrases

Answer 11

units that make up a meldoy

Question 12

Cadences

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phrases ending in resting places. punctuates music like commas or periods punctuates sentence

Question 13

Countermelody

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a secondary accompanying melody

Question 14

range

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distance between the lowest and the highest notes

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Form

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is the organizing principle in music: basic elements are: repetition, contrast, variation

Question 16

Strophic form

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the same melody or text is repeated with each stanza :folk songs or carols like Silent Night. “hol-y Night”

Question 17

through composed

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opposite of strophic form. no section of the music or text is repeated

Question 18

Binary form( a-b) Ternary form (a-b-a)

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basic structures and rhyme structures in music

Question 19

contour

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overall shape of a melody

Question 20

simple meter

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every beat can be divided into two

Question 21

compound meter

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every beat gets divided into three: triplets

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syncopation

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accenting of the off beats.

Question 23

polyphonic/polyphony texture

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many voices at the same time

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homophonic/homophony texture

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one main melody with accompaniment

Question 25

monophonic texture

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one main melody

Question 26

heterophonic texture

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one main melody with adlibs

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nonmetric music

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no strong sense of pulse

Question 28

dissonance music

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combination of tones that sound discordant

Question 29

consonance

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restful sound to the ear

Question 30

chromatic scale

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12 small half steps all half steps = chromatic

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diatonic scale

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7 tones of a scale “do rei me fo so la tee” whole and half steps

Question 32

tonic

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1 Chord (the root chord)

Question 33

modulate

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changing to another key within the same song

Question 34

transposition

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changing all the notes of the song to suit different voices and instruments

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micro tones

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intervals smaller than half step

Question 36

micro tones

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intervals smaller than half step

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minor scale

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flattened 3rd scale degree- makes the music sad

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sequence

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taking a motive and repeating it through different pitches

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Form- strophic form

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repeating the same melody for all verses of the song

Question 40

through composed form

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no repeats- music changes with every verse reflect the text

Question 41

Dynamics how loud - issimo

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VERY loud

Question 42

P

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piano

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F

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forte

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Pp

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pianissimo

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Ff

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Fortissimo

Question 46

Mp

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Medium soft

Question 47

Mf

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Medium loud

Question 48

tempos How fast- Grave

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very fast