Week 3

Question 1

syncopation

Answer 1

when a duration begins just before the next beat and ends after it (must specify the slowest beat that the duration occurs before)

Question 2

When is musical continuity sustained?

Answer 2

• a pitch sustains or repeats with legato articulation
• a series of events is directed in pitch or loudness
• regular attacks or accents to create a pulse

Question 3

What is pitch interval?

Answer 3

the difference in pitch from one sound to another

Question 4

What is a pitch class?

Answer 4

a family of octave related pitches

Question 5

What is an advantage of using a limited number of pitches?

Answer 5

1. makes change clear

2. recognize pitch repetition

Question 6

What is a scale?

Answer 6

a distinctive way of dividing an octave into a series of smaller intervals

Question 7

How are scales distinguished?

Answer 7

By the way they divide the octave

Question 8

What is a step and what is a leap?

Answer 8

a step is the interval between adjacent pitches, a leap is the interval between NON-adjacent pitches

Question 9

What is the pattern of a whole tone scale?

Answer 9

TTTTTT

Question 10

What is the pattern of a chromatic scale?

Answer 10

ssssssssssss

Question 11

What is the pattern of an octatonic scale?

Answer 11

TsTsTsTs

Question 12

What is the pattern of a diatonic scale?

Answer 12

TsTTsTT

Question 13

What are the two things you need to name pitch precisely?

Answer 13

class and register

Question 14

Pitch motive?

Answer 14

distinctive repeated series of pitches

Question 15

Internal motive?

Answer 15

distinctive repeated series of intervals

Question 16

Transposition

Answer 16

a pitch series that reproduces the interval series of an earlier pitch series that starts on a different pitch

Question 17

Pitch inversion

Answer 17

a pitch series that reproduces the interval series of an earlier pitch series, but reverse the direction of every interval

Question 18

How do transposition and inversion affect grouping?

Answer 18

repetition: we hear beginnings and ends

Question 19

Diatonic interval motive

Answer 19

a distinctive series of step sizes that are repeated (without regard to absolute size)