Vocab

Question 1

Tonality

Answer 1

The feeling of centrality of one note to a passage music

Question 2

Motive

Answer 2

A short musical idea

Question 3

Atonality

Answer 3

Music that lacks a tonal center or key

Question 4

Ostinato

Answer 4

A continually related musical phrase or rhythm

Question 5

Bitonality

Answer 5

Is the use of only two different keys at the same time

Question 6

Sprechstimme

Answer 6

Is a vocal style that combines elements of song speech

Question 7

Tone color

Answer 7

Sonorous quality of a particular instrument, voice, or combination of instrument or voices

Question 8

Symphony

Answer 8

A multi movement for an orchestra

Question 9

Texture

Answer 9

How the melodic rhythmic and harmonic materials are combined in a composition this determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece

Question 10

String quartet

Answer 10

Music ensemble of four strings

Question 11

Polyphony

Answer 11

The style of simultaneously combining a number of parts each forming an individual melody and harmonizing with each other

Question 12

Song cycle

Answer 12

A group of songs destined to be performed in sequence as a single entity

Question 13

Dissonance

Answer 13

Lack of harmony

Question 14

Movement

Answer 14

Is a self contained part of a musical composition or musical form

Question 15

Consonance

Answer 15

Is what is not dissonant and reciprocally

Question 16

Program music

Answer 16

Instrumental music with an extra musical meaning assigned by the composer

Question 17

Diatonic scale

Answer 17

Seven pictures

Question 18

Absolute music

Answer 18

Music that is not explicitly about anything

Question 19

Chromatic scale

Answer 19

Twelve pitches

Question 20

Modernism

Answer 20

An artistic movement in which artists seek to create something new and distinctive while still maintaining links to traditionally

Question 21

Pentatonic scale

Answer 21

Musical scale mode with five notes per octave

Question 22

Impression

Answer 22

Uses colorful harmony and instrumental timbre

Question 23

Whole tone scale

Answer 23

A scale consisting entirely of intervals of a tone with no semitones

Question 24

Expressionism

Answer 24

The truthfulness of a subjective feeling without illusions disguise or euphemisms

Question 25

Meter

Answer 25

A background of stressed and unstressed beats in a implement regular repaying pattern

Question 26

Accent

Answer 26

The process of giving a beat a greater emphasis then normal

Question 27

Stylistic synthesis

Answer 27

Use of elements of more than one style of music to create a new style