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1
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Vibrations that are transmitted, usually through air, to the eardrum, which sends impulses to the brain.

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Sound

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2
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Relative highness or lowness of a sound.

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Pitch

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3
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Sound that has a definite pitch, or frequency

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Tone

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4
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“Distance” in pitch between any two tones.

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Interval

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5
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Interval between two tones in which the higher tone has twice the frequency of the lower tone.

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Octave

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Distance between the highest and lowest tones that a given voice or instrument can produce.

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Range

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7
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Quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument or voice from another.

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Tone Color (Timbre)

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Melody that serves as the starting point for an extended piece of music.

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Theme

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9
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Changing some features of a musical idea while retaining others.

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Variation

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Ordered flow of music through time; the pattern of duration of notes and silences in music.

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Rhythm

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Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time.

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Beat

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12
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Organization of beats into regular groups.

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Meter

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13
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Rhythmic group set off by bar lines, containing a fixed number of beats.

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Measure

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14
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Interval larger than that between two adjacent tones in the scale.

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Leap

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15
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Unaccented pulse preceding the downbeat.

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Upbeat

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16
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Tone combination that is stable and restful.

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Consonance

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17
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Accenting of a note at an unexpected time, as between two beats or on a weak beat.

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Syncopation

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18
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Basic pace of music.

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Tempo

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19
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Two numbers, one above the other, appearing at the beginning of a staff or the start of a piece, indicating the meter of the piece.

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Time Signature (Meter Signature)

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20
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Notation showing all the parts of a musical ensemble, with a separate staff for each part, and with simultaneously sounded notes aligned vertically; used by the conductor.

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Score

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21
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Series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole.

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Melody

22
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Interval between two adjacent tones in the scale.

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Step

23
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Technique of combining two or more melodic lines into a meaningful whole.

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Counterpoint

24
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Smooth, connected manner of performing a melody

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Legato

25
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Short, detached manner of performing a melody.

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Staccato

26
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Part of a melody.

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Phrase

27
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In a melody, the immediate repetition of a melodic pattern on a higher or lower pitch.

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Sequence

28
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Musical representation of specific poetic images - for example, a falling melodic line to accompany the word descending - often found in Renaissance and baroque music.

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Word Painting

29
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Vocal form in which the same music is repeated for each stanza of a poem.

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Strophic form

30
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How chords are constructed and how they follow each other.

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Harmony

31
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Tone combination that is unstable and tense.

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Dissonance

32
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Focused on human life and its accomplishments.

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Humanism

33
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Literally meaning Rebirth

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Renaissance

34
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Official music of the Roman Catholic Church. Consists of melody set to sacred Latin texts and sung without accompaniment. (Monophonic in texture.)

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Gregorian Chant

35
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The highlight of the liturgical day, was a ritual reenactment of the Last Supper.

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Mass

36
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Like major and minor scales; consist of seven different tones and an eighth tone that duplicates the first an octave higher.

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Church Modes (Modes)

37
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One or more long, sustained tones accompanying a melody.

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Drone

38
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One of the main poetic and musical forms in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France.

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Rondeau

39
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Meaning having many sounds.

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Polyphonic

40
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The technique of combining several melodic lines into a meaningful whole.

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Counterpoint

41
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When a melodic idea is presented by one voice or instrument and is then restated immediately by another.

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Imitation

42
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Performance of a single melodic line at the same pitch by more than one instrument or voice.

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Unison

43
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Meaning literally have one sound.

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Monophonic

44
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A polyphonic choral composition made up of fave sections: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.

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Mass (Renaissance Mass)

45
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An important kind of secular vocal music during the Renaissance; A piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.

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Madrigal

46
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A polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass.

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Motet

47
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Rich polyphonic texture; It’s six voice parts constantly imitate each other, yet blend beautifully.

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Kyrie

48
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System of writing music so that specific pitches and rhythms can be communicated.

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Notation

49
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Short, detached manner of performing a melody.

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Staccato

50
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Smooth, connected manner of performing a melody.

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Legato

51
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memes

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memes

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