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Test 2 Flashcards

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1
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Enharmonic tone

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Two different names for the same pitch

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2
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Diatonic scale

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A seven note scale plus the octave

WWHWWWH

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Staff

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5 lines and 4 spaces on which musical notes are written

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Clef

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A French word meaning clue; specifies a certain line on the staff to be a certain pitch

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Treble clef, or G clef space and line notes

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F A C E

E G B D F

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Bass clef, or F clef space and line notes

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A C E G

G B D F A

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Ledger lines

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Additional short lines added above or below the staff

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Key signature

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A collection of sharps or flats at the beginning of a piece of music

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Accidental

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Cancels the key signature temporarily

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10
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Tune

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A shorter part of a melody

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Phrase

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A series of musical pitches that seem to naturally belong together

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12
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Cadence

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A stopping or settling place in music

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13
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Motive

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A musical fragment

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Imitative polyphony

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Two or more melodies being sung or played simultaneously at different times, with melodies being the same

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Non-imitative polyphony

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Two or more melodies being played or sung simultaneously at different times, with melodies being different

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16
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Climax

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Usually a note made most important through its length, volume, or pitch

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Theme

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A melody serves as the primary horizontal building material for a piece of music

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Harmony

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Produced whenever two or more pitches sound at the same time

19
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Chords

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Three or more notes sounded together

20
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Dissonance

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Sounds (intervals or chords) that are unpleasant to the ear

21
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Consonance

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Pleasing sounds

22
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Monophonic

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A single melody

23
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Polyphonic

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Made up exclusively of interwoven melodies

24
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Homophonic

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A prominent melody supported by chords

25
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Form

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Overall design of a musical work that can be heard by the listener

26
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Sonata form

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A generalized, variable three part formal design

  1. Exposition
  2. Development
  3. Recapitulation (restate the beginning)
27
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Variation technique

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An original idea is stated and then repeated a number of times, but each repetition is in some way a variation of the original material

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Style

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A distinctive quality that arises from and expresses the need and customs of who wrote it

29
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Genre

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Kind of piece

30
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Opera

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Sung drama in which singers play the roles of characters on a suitable decorated stage

31
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Libretto

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Text of the opera (storyline)

32
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Overture

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Orchestral number played before the curtain goes up, it contains many of the main themes of the act and serves as a musical introduction to the opera

33
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Symphony

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A work for orchestra that is usually in four movements and focuses on ensemble playing rather than soloists

34
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Program music

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Some kind of description or story that was intended to be included in the concert program

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Sonata

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Piece of music for a solo instrument, or for a solo instrument and a piano accompaniment

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Concerto

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A three movement work for a soloist and an orchestra

37
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Cantata

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Sung; sacred vocal music

38
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Chamber music

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Instrumental music written for a small number of players with one player on a part and the emphasis on ensemble rather than solo playing

39
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Toccata

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A free style form; different for every person that plays it

40
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Fugue

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A musical procedure in which successive entrances of the same theme are heard in different instruments while the earlier entrants play free melodic material

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