Terms: Textures & Other Terms Flashcards
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texture
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a term describing how melodic, rhythmic, & harmonic materials are woven together in a piece of music
2
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a single melodic idea WITHOUT accompaniment
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monophonic
3
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a single clearly defined melody WITH accompaniment
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homophonic
4
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a musical texture consisting of more than one melodic line
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polyphonic
5
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a combination of 3 or more pitches sounding @ the same time
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chord
6
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a chord w/ 3 notes that are stacked in thirds (ex: major, minor, diminished, augmented)
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triad
7
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a point of rest in music
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cadence
8
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division of the beat into 3 equal parts
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compound division
9
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division of the beat into 2 or 4 equal parts
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simple division
10
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a shift in tonal center w/i a movement or a small musical work
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modulation