Vocab Flashcards
4 Properties of Musical Sound
Pitch, Dynamics, Timbre, Duration
Pitch
relative highness or lowness of a sound
Dynamics
degrees of loudness in music
Decrescendo
gradually becoming softer
Crescendo
gradually becoming louder
Tone Color / Timbre
Quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument from another
Duration
How long a note is heard or sounds
Interval
measures musical distance between two pitches
Octave
A distance of 8 pitches in which the first and the 8th pitch are the same letter names
Orchestra
Uses the 4 main categories of instruments (strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion)
Beat
A regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time
Meter
Organization of beats into regular groups
Duple
2 beats, s-w
Triple
3 beats, s-w-w
Quadruple
4 beats, s-w-w-w