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Texture and Melody Flashcards

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Accompaniment

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The layers that go with the tune but are not tune itself

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Acciaccatura

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An ornament that’s played as quickly as possible before the written notes

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Appogiatura

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An ornament that clashes with the accompanying chord then resolves

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Blue notes

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The flattened notes in blues scale

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Blues scale

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A major scale with flattened 3rd and 7th

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Call and response

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A shot melody followed by an answering phrase

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Canon

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Where the same tune is played by two or more parts, each starting before the previous part has finished

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Chant

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Singing in unison, similar to the rhythm of speech

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Chromatic scale

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Includes all twelve notes of an octave

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Clef

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In sheet music, a symbol at the beginning of a stave defining the pitch of the notes

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Counterpoint

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Two or three independent melodic lines played at the same time

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Diatonic

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Notes that belong to the main key of the piece

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Drone

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A bass note held under a melody

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Enharmonic

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Notes which sound the same but are written differently

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Expressivo

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A direction to play expressively

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Glissando

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Sliding between two notes

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Heterophy

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Music that’s made up of two or more different versions of the same tune

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Homophony

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Tune combined with chords

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Hook

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A short memorable bit of tune

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Imitation

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One voice or instrument copies another

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Interval

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The distance in pitch between notes

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Inversion

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Take tune and turn it upside down

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Legato

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Smoothly

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Melismatic

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A single syllable of text is sung over a succession of notes

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Mordent

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A key that sounds sad

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Motif

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A little bit of music that’s often repeated and altered

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Octave

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8 full tones above the key note

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Ornaments

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Extra notes added to decorate the principle melodic tone

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Ostinato

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A repeated phrase

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Passing notes

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A linking note

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Pedal note

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Held or repeated note lasting for a couple of bars usually on the tonic or dominant

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Pentatonic scale

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A musical scale having five notes

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Phrase

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A single line of music played or sung

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Polyphony

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Combining a number of individual melodies

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Portamento

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A mild glissando between two notes for an expressive effect

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Retrograde

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Version of a tune where the notes are played in reverse order

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Riff

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Short repeated phrase

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Round

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A canon where the melody is sung in two or more voices. After the first voice begins, the next voice starts after a couple of measures are played in the preceding voices. All parts repeat continuously.

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Scale

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Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending

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Sequence

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Repetition of a phrase at a different pitches

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Slur

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A curve over notes to indicate that a phrase is to be played legato

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Staccato

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Short detached notes, as opposed to legato

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Syllabic

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In song-tune has one note for each syllable

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Texture

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How different parts relate to each other e.g. Monophonic, homophonic

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Triadic

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Tune made up of broken chord patterns

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Trill

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Rapid alternation between notes that are a half time or whole tone apart

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Turn

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Ornament. Note/above/note/below/note

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Tutti

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Passage for the entire ensemble or orchestra without a soloist

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Unison

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Two or more voices or instruments playing the same note simultaneously

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Vibrato

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When a note oscillates or wobbles to give a richer sound

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