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Beat

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Basic pulse

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Rhythm

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Orderly movement of music in time

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Accent

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Emphasis on a certain beat

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Meter

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Group of beats into a pattern

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Measure

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Measurement of musical time in beats

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Tempo

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Speed of composition

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Duple meter

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Beats fall into groups of 2/4

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Triple meter

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Beats fall into groups of 3

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Simple meter

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Each beat is divided into 2/4 parts

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Compound meter

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Each beat is divided into 3 parts

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Syncopation

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Accent shifted to weak or off-beat

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Shifting meter

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Part Duple part triple

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Polyrhythm

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Simultaneous contrasting rhythm conflicting of meter or accent

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Additive meter

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Grouping of irregular beats into a pattern

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Nonmetric

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No meter

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Melody

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Coherent succession of single pitches in a musically expressive order

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Harmony

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Combination of individual notes to produce chords

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Color/Timbre

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Quality of sound from instrument/voice

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Form

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Organization or structure of composition

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Conjunct motion

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Adjacent notes are close in pitch

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Disjunct motion

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Adjacent notes are far apart in pitch

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Narrow range

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All the notes fit within few pitches

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Wide range

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Notes are very high and very low

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Cadence

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End of a phrase

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Difference between complete and incomplete cadence
Complete ends in resting point, incomplete leads into next phrase
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Melodic direction
Refers to leading to end or climax
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Motives development
Small collection of notes the piece then expands upon
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Three levels of listening
Sentuous-background Expressive- finding meaning Musical (intellectual)- analyzing the music
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5 things western music developed from
Chant, music for royalty, needs of industrialized society, technology, folk/pop
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4 things about Greek music
Divine origin, miracle working, three divisions, moral effect
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Ethos (in terms of Greek music)
Moral quality/effect of music
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3 divisions of Greek music
Physical world, human body/soul, sounds
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What are the 2 classes of music
Apollonian, Dyonesian
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Describe Apollonian music
From Apollo, lyre, ode/epic, calm and uplifting
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Describe Dyonesian music
Dyonisis, drama/dethyramb, enthusiastic/excited, aulos
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Modes of Greek music (and effects)
Mixolydian- saddening Dorian- settle temper Phrygian- enthusiastic Lydian- poor morals
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Physical laws of music
2:1 octave ratio, fourth 4:3, fifth 3:2 tetrachord | Interval of an octave vibrations 2x as fast
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March millitaire- Schubert
Duple meter
38
Lucretia's reprise
Duple meter
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William tell overture
Duple meter
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Waltz of the flowers
Triple meter
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How lovely is thy dwelling place
Triple meter
42
Music box waltz
Triple meter
43
Bhimpalasi
Non-metric to metric
44
Eleanor Rigby
Syncopation
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Bye-bye blackbird Miles Davis
Syncopation
46
Maple leaf rag
Syncopation
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Miranda
Shifting meter duple to triple
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Slavonic dances
Shifting meter triple to duple
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Disorder-legeti
Polyrhythm
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Take five-Dave Brubeck
Additive meter
51
Dravidian Dithyramb
Additive meter
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Walk on the ocean
Narrow range
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Oh mio Bambino Caro
Wide range
54
Love is stronger than justice-sting
Conjunct motion
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Beethoven's ninth
Conjunct motion
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Non so piu
Conjunct motion
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Golliwog's cakewalk
Disjunct motion
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Los cuatro soles
Disjunct motion
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Queen of the nights aria the magic flute
Disjunct motion
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Sonata in A- Mozart
Antecedent and consequent phrases
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Fields of Gold- sting
Antecedent and consequences phrases
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Beethoven's fifth
Motivic development
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Haydn 94th Symphony
Countermelody
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Tonight-Bernstein
Countermelody
65
Sakura- traditional jap
Narrow range
66
Herzegewachse
Wide range

Humanities Music (12 decks)

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