mus 205
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- Escapement
- the rebounding of the hammer form the piano string to allow for the ringing
- Counterpoint
- voices go in opposite directions
- Interval
- the distance between any two notes
- Dynamics
- the relative loudness or softness of a pitch
- Timbre/Tone Color
- the quality of a particular sound
- Harmonic Series
- The collection of Pitches
- Equal Temperament
- divides the octave into 12 equal parts
- Just Temperament
- Opposite from Equal Temperament with Pure Intervals
- Well Temperament
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Circular Temperament
Can Play any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune - Chromatic Scale
- Contains all twelve pitches of the Western tempered scale
- Overture
- an instrumental composition used in opera to prepare the audience for the drama to follow
- Recitative
- a vocal stylethat is constructed by imitating natural speech inflections
- Serial Music
- a term oftern used for twelve-tone music in which music is constructed by a specific ordering of the twelve chromatic pitches
- Pitch
- the highness or lowness that we hear in a sound and is determined by the frequency of the vibration
- Solfege
- a way of assigning syllables to names of the musical scale