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- Middle C
- Where we center our music
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Distance from B to A
C to G
A to D -
1/7
1/5
1/4 - Harmony
- something that accompanies song/tune
- 1/8th Note
- 1/2 Count
- Tone Quality
- Timbre
- Whole Note
- 4 counts
- Volume
- Loudness or Softness (amplitude)
- Quarter Note
- 1 count
- Key
- a collection of seven pitches defined by our major scales
- name triads by ______?
- Root (root 3rd, 5th)
- Rhythm
- VARIATIONS of beats/pulses
- Treble Clef
- Shows where G is
- Natural Half Step
- from B-C and E-F (no black notes)
- Time Signature
- (top #) shows the number of beats in each measure (bottom #) shows what kind of note gets one beat
- Music (teacher's definition)
- organized sound in time
- constant
- unisen, octave, perfect fit
- Tempo
-
how fast or slow teh beat/pulse is
(CONSTANT) - piano forte
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piano (p) = soft
forte (f) = loud - Half-steps
- The smallest interval in western music.
- Great/Grand Staff
- two staffs joined together by a bar line & played together
- Interval
- distance between two notes or pitches
- Music Notation
- goes from down to up
- Octave
- From C-C D-D #B-#B
- Staff
- five lines that we write music on
- Enharmonic
- one pitch that has more than one name or two names describing the same pitch.
- Half Note
-
2 counts
- Scale
- A set C - C
- Formula for for major scale?
- Full-Full-Half-Full-Full-Full-Half
- # (Sharp)
- To make a note higher, going up a half-step
- Base Clef
- shows where F is
- b (flat)
- going down a half step
- Asthetic
- emotion, expressional part of music
- Melody
- Tune/song
- Mnemonic Device
- memory aid
- Frequency
- how many times something occurs (vibrations per second)
- Sound
- Vibrations traveling through air within audible range
- Measure
- grouping of notes/beats marked off by two vertical lines on a staff
- What is audible range?
- 20 hz - 20,000 hz
- Pitch
- how high or low