terminology

Question 1

Harmony

Answer 1

simultaneous sounding of different pitches or chords

Question 2

Harmonize

Answer 2

to provide each note of a melody with a chord

Question 3

Chord

Answer 3

a grouping of pitches played and heard simultaneously

Question 4

Consonance

Answer 4

intervals or chords that sounds relatively stable and free of tension

Question 5

Dissonance

Answer 5

intervals or chords that sounds relatively tense and unstable

Question 6

Resolve

Answer 6

to proceed from dissonant harmony to consonance

Question 7

Texture

Answer 7

blend of the various sounds and melodic lines occurring simultaneously in a piece of music

Question 8

Monophony

Answer 8

musical texture involving a single melodic line

Question 9

Homophony

Answer 9

musical texture that involves only one melody of real interest, combined with chords or other subsidiary sounds

Question 10

Polophony

Answer 10

musical texture in which two or more melodic lines are played or sung simultaneously

Question 11

Counterpoint

Answer 11

forming polyphony, technique of writing polyphonic music

Question 12

Imitative Polyphony

Answer 12

polyphonic musical texture in which the various melodic lines use approximately the same theme

Question 13

Non-Imitative Polyphony

Answer 13

melodic lines are essentially different from one another

Question 14

tonality, tonal

Answer 14

the feeling of centrality of one note to a passage of music

Question 15

tonic

Answer 15

in tonal music, the central sounding note

Question 16

modality

Answer 16

major mode or minor mode

Question 17

major mode

Answer 17

one of the modes of the diatomic scale. oriented around C as the tonic, characterized by the interval between the first an third notes containing four semitones

Question 18

minor mode

Answer 18

diatonic scale, oriented around A as the tonic, characterized by the interval between the first and third notes containing three seminotes

Question 19

Key

Answer 19

one of the twelve positions for the major and minor mode scales made possible by using all the notes of the chromatic scale

Question 20

Modulation

Answer 20

changing key within a piece

Question 21

Form

Answer 21

the shape of a piece of music

Question 22

genre

Answer 22

general category of music determined partly by the number and mind of instruments or voices involved. and partly by its form, style, or purpose

Question 23

style

Answer 23

combination of qualities that makes a period of art, a composer, a group of works, or an individual work distintive

Question 24

Variation

Answer 24

sectional pieces in which each section repeats certain musical elements while other change around them