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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

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Complete ends in resting point, incomplete leads into next phrase

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Melodic direction

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Refers to leading to end or climax

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Motives development

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Small collection of notes the piece then expands upon

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Three levels of listening

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Sentuous-background
Expressive- finding meaning
Musical (intellectual)- analyzing the music

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5 things western music developed from

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Chant, music for royalty, needs of industrialized society, technology, folk/pop

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4 things about Greek music

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Divine origin, miracle working, three divisions, moral effect

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Ethos (in terms of Greek music)

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Moral quality/effect of music

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3 divisions of Greek music

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Physical world, human body/soul, sounds

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What are the 2 classes of music

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Apollonian, Dyonesian

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Describe Apollonian music

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From Apollo, lyre, ode/epic, calm and uplifting

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Describe Dyonesian music

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Dyonisis, drama/dethyramb, enthusiastic/excited, aulos

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Modes of Greek music (and effects)

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Mixolydian- saddening
Dorian- settle temper
Phrygian- enthusiastic
Lydian- poor morals

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Physical laws of music

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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

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Duple meter

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Lucretia’s reprise

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Duple meter

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William tell overture

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Duple meter

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Waltz of the flowers

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Triple meter

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How lovely is thy dwelling place

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Triple meter

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Music box waltz

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Triple meter

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Bhimpalasi

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Non-metric to metric

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Eleanor Rigby

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Syncopation

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Bye-bye blackbird Miles Davis

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Syncopation

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Maple leaf rag

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Syncopation

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Miranda

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Shifting meter duple to triple

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Slavonic dances

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Shifting meter triple to duple

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Disorder-legeti

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Polyrhythm

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Take five-Dave Brubeck

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Additive meter

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Dravidian Dithyramb

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Additive meter

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Walk on the ocean

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Narrow range

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Oh mio Bambino Caro

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Wide range

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Love is stronger than justice-sting

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Conjunct motion

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Beethoven’s ninth

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Conjunct motion

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Non so piu

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Conjunct motion

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Golliwog’s cakewalk

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Disjunct motion

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Los cuatro soles

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Disjunct motion

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Queen of the nights aria the magic flute

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Disjunct motion

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Sonata in A- Mozart

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Antecedent and consequent phrases

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Fields of Gold- sting

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Antecedent and consequences phrases

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Beethoven’s fifth

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Motivic development

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Haydn 94th Symphony

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Countermelody

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Tonight-Bernstein

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Countermelody

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Sakura- traditional jap

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Narrow range

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Herzegewachse

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Wide range

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