Unit 9 assessment

Question 1

Blend

Answer 1

The term refers to the manner in which the characteristic sounds of the voices/instruments sound together

Question 2

Balance

Answer 2

This term refers to the volume that is produced by various sections of an ensamble

Question 3

Motif

Answer 3

This term refers to brief melodic or rhythmic formula out of which longer passages are developed

Question 4

Ostinato

Answer 4

This term refers to a continually repeated musical phrase or rythm

Question 5

Articulation

Answer 5

This term refers to how each note is preformed

Question 6

Hemiola

Answer 6

This term refers to a compositional device with the feeling one meter is juxtaposed over the current meter

Question 7

Elision

Answer 7

This term refers to a compositional device whereby the end of one phrase starts the beginning of the next phrase

Question 8

L’istesso tempo

Answer 8

This term means “at the same speed”

Question 9

Piu mosso

Answer 9

This term means “more motion”

Question 10

Phrase

Answer 10

This term refers to a musical sentence. This has a beginning, middle, and end, and is a succession of notes forming a distinctive unit.

Question 11

Ballad

Answer 11

This term is used to describe a piece of music that is usually slow in tempo, smoot, connected, song-like and sustained

Question 12

Phasing

Answer 12

This term is used to describe the issue with sections of the ensemble that are not aligned with the tempo or each other

Question 13

Meno Mosso

Answer 13

This term means “less motion”

Question 14

Augmentation

Answer 14

This term refers to the expansion of melody by doubling the length

Question 15

Diminutaion

Answer 15

This term refers to the contraction of the melody by shortening the length