Test 3

Question 1

diatonic scale

Answer 1

the traditional major or minor scale using 7 pitches per octave.

Question 2

Chromatic scale

Answer 2

a scale using all 12 pitches per octave (all white and black keys on a piano keyboard).

Question 3

Whole tone scale

Answer 3

a scale using every other pitch on a keyboard (= 6 pitches per octave).

Question 4

Octatonic scale

Answer 4

A scale that alternates half steps (adjacent keys on a keyboard) and whole steps (keys with keys between them) (= 8 pitches per octave).

Question 5

tone color / timbre

Answer 5

Emphasizing contrasting sounds of different instruments.

Question 6

Symphonic poem

Answer 6

Instrumental piece for opera in one movement, point is to portray an emotion or idea.

Question 7

Atonality

Answer 7

Any music that is made within a key (bflat minor, F minor)

Question 8

Serialism

Answer 8

A method of composition in which different musical elements are ordered in a fixed series.

Question 9

Twelve-tone

Answer 9

A procedure in which the composer applies strict serialist rules to the use of all 12 musical pitches; usually atonal (lots of criticism for using this)

Question 10

Sprechstimme

Answer 10

A type of singing where you are almost speaking; exaggerated speaking

Question 11

Collage

Answer 11

multiple musical elements that shouldn’t be together and superimposing them as if it’s two songs at the same thing or back to back things in quick succession

Question 12

polyrhythm

Answer 12

Multiple rhythms going on at the same time.

Question 13

polytonality

Answer 13

multiple tonalities going on at the same time.

Question 14

Polymeter

Answer 14

Multiple meters going on at the same time.

Question 15

Polychord

Answer 15

2 chords sounded at the same time.

Question 16

Tone cluster

Answer 16

Using many pitches at the same time that are adjacent pitches on a piano keyboard.

Question 17

Musique Concrete

Answer 17

Birth of sampling aka taking a musical sound from something else and putting it in your musical sound

Question 18

microtonality

Answer 18

music that uses pitches other that in common use, others used not in piano.

Question 19

aleatoric music

Answer 19

Introduction of chance or randomness into music

Question 20

Minimalism

Answer 20

Involves repetition of short melodic fragment over long periods of time and within the repetitions slight changes. Steve Reich father of minimalism

Question 21

Phasing

Answer 21

When multiple instruments/tapes start together then slowly become out of sync.

Question 22

Tintinabulation

Answer 22

A system combining notes from a diatonic scale and triad

Question 23

Triad

Answer 23

A chord formed from the first, third and fifth notes on a diatonic scale