Music Appreciation
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- Messo Saprano
- women
- concertmaster
- principal first violinists
- consanance
- tone stable
- staff
- set of five horizontal lines
- triad
- basic chord
- def
- placed at beginning of staff to show pitch of each line and space
- sharp
- # raised half step
- broken chord
- individul tone of a chord are sounded one after another
- keynote
- central tone
- interval
- distance between pitch is called:
- rhythem
- flow of the music through time
- chromatic scale
- all white and black keys
- major key
- key based on major scale
- unison
- same pitch more than one sound
- syncopation
- accented where we would not expect
- triple stop
- rotating bow rapidly across 3 stings or four strings
- style
- chracteristic of using melody, rhythm,tone, color, dynamics, harmony, texture, and form.
- complete cadence
- gives answer
- tenor
- men
- sound
- begins with vibration of an object
- note
- an oval
- tonic key
- main key
- notation
- system of writing music
- double stop
- Two notes played at once
- virtuoso
- artist with extraordinary techniques
- tone color
- propery of music (timbre)
- legato
- connected style
- climax
- highest tone of a melody
- Saprano
- women
- string intruments
- violen,viola,doublebass
- beat
- regular recurrent pulsation
- theme
- melody used as basis for a musical compostition
- tone
- sound that has a definate pitch
- musical texture
- layer of sound heard at once
- contrast
- provide variety/conflict
- polyphonic texture
- many sound
- inprovisation
- music created at same time performed
- bass
- men
- phrase
- melody made up of shorter parts
- tremolo
- repeats tone by quick up-down and -down up strokes of the bow.
- mute
- the musicain can muffle tone by fitting clamp onto bridge
- variation
- caried repetitions of the theme
- natural
- no sharps of flats
- pitch
- the relative highness or lowness of a sound
- incomplete cadence
- set expectation
- three-part form
- ABA statement, contrast ,return
- Two part form
- AB statement conterstatement
- cadence
- resting place at the end of a phrase
- Theme
- melody serve as the starting point for a more extended piece of muscian and streaching out, will go through all kinds of changes
- baritone
- men
- minor step
- half of a whole step
- accent
- when tone is emphazied by playing it more loudly thatn the tones around it
- dubbing
- recording made available note possible in live performance
- key
- central scale and chord
- chord
- combination of three or more tones
- major scale
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- key signature
- indicate key of piece
- repetition
- sense of unity
- minor key
- key based on minor scale
- modulation
- shifting from one key to another
- half step
- smallest interval
- Keyboard instruments
- piano,harpsichord,pipe organ, accordian
- form
- organized of musical elements
- tempo
- speed of the beat
- woodwind instruments
- piccolo, flute, oboe, eniglish horn, clarinet, bass claarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, recorder, reed, single-reedsaxophne,double reed winds
- octave
- tone separted by interval
- staccato
- short detached
- Pizzicato
- pluck string
- progression
- specific series
- performer
- person who plays musical composition
- cadence
- progression frame dimination to tonic
- brass instruments
- trumpet, french horn,trombone, tuba,cornet,baritone horn, euphonium
- monophonic texture
- having one sound
- dissonance
- tone unstable
- ledger line
- pitch falls above or below
- tempo indication
- word describe tempo
- precussion intruments
- timpani, glockenspeil,xylophone,celesta,chimes,snare drum,bass drum,tambourine,triangle,symbals,gong
- Vibrato
- Produce throbbing exoresice tone by rocking the left hand while pressing the string down.
- imitation
- melodic idea presented by one voice
- leap
- larger steps
- tonic chord
- main chord of a piece
- harmony
- way chords are constucted
- upbeat
- unaccented pulse preceding the downbeat
- range
- distance between the lowest and highest tome that a voice or an instumnet can produce
- meter
- organization of beats into regular groups
- downbeat
- first or stressed beat
- Melody
- series of single times
- embellishment
- offered variety sense of individualism
- accents
- empasized note
- dynamics
- Degree of loudness or softness
- scale
- basic pitch of a piece of music highest to lowest
- variation
- keeping some elements of musical thought
- homophonic texture
- one main melody accompanied by chords
- sequence
- when repeated in different pitch
- counterpoint
- combining several melodic lines
- measure
- group containing a fixed number of beats
- alto
- women
- flat
- b lowered half step
- bow
- slightly curved stick strung tightly with horsehair.
- resolution
- when dissonance to consanace
- Harmonics
- very high pitch like a whistle's are produced when musician lightly touches certain points on the strings
- dominant chord
- triad build on the fifth note