Music 100
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- Duration
- Time Aspect of music Ex: Rhythm, Tempo, Beats
- Tempo
- the rate at which the basic, regular beats of the meter follow one another
- Melody
- organized series of pitches No accompaniment/playing a single line
- Imitative Polyphony
- various lines sounding together use the same or fairly similar melodies, with one coming in shortly after another
- Non-Imitative Polyphony
- Melodies are essentially different from one another
- Monophony
- single unaccompanied melody
- Homophonic
- Only one melody of real interest and is combined with other sounds Ex: Row Row Row Your Boat while playing chords on a guitar
- Syncopation
- accents/anything that occurs off beat
- Adagio
- Tempo Indication: Slow
- Moderato
- Tempo Indication: Moderate Tempo
- Allegro
- Tempo Indication: Fast
- Presto
- Tempo Indication: Very Fast
- Adante
- Tempo Indication: On the Slow side
- Texture
- Monphony, Homophony, Polyphony
- Dynamics
- level of sound Ex: Piano-Soft Forte-Strong
- Organum
- the earliest type of polyphony