Vocab Flashcards
Tonality
The feeling of centrality of one note to a passage music
Motive
A short musical idea
Atonality
Music that lacks a tonal center or key
Ostinato
A continually related musical phrase or rhythm
Bitonality
Is the use of only two different keys at the same time
Sprechstimme
Is a vocal style that combines elements of song speech
Tone color
Sonorous quality of a particular instrument, voice, or combination of instrument or voices
Symphony
A multi movement for an orchestra
Texture
How the melodic rhythmic and harmonic materials are combined in a composition this determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece
String quartet
Music ensemble of four strings
Polyphony
The style of simultaneously combining a number of parts each forming an individual melody and harmonizing with each other
Song cycle
A group of songs destined to be performed in sequence as a single entity
Dissonance
Lack of harmony
Movement
Is a self contained part of a musical composition or musical form
Consonance
Is what is not dissonant and reciprocally
Program music
Instrumental music with an extra musical meaning assigned by the composer
Diatonic scale
Seven pictures
Absolute music
Music that is not explicitly about anything
Chromatic scale
Twelve pitches
Modernism
An artistic movement in which artists seek to create something new and distinctive while still maintaining links to traditionally
Pentatonic scale
Musical scale mode with five notes per octave
Impression
Uses colorful harmony and instrumental timbre
Whole tone scale
A scale consisting entirely of intervals of a tone with no semitones
Expressionism
The truthfulness of a subjective feeling without illusions disguise or euphemisms
Meter
A background of stressed and unstressed beats in a implement regular repaying pattern
Accent
The process of giving a beat a greater emphasis then normal
Stylistic synthesis
Use of elements of more than one style of music to create a new style
