exam 1 vocab
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- strings
- violin,viola,cello,double bass
- monophonic
- one line or voice
- cantus firmus
- set melody.
- keyboard
- organ piano
- variation
- a',a,"a''', etc.
- polyphonic
- 2 or more voices of equal interest performed at the same time. one melody that people come in at different times. or two or more totally different melodies
- woodwind
- piccolo,flute,oboe,english horn, bell, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, contra bassoon, saxaphone
- mezzo forte
- moderately loud
- brass
- trumpet french horn trombone tuba coronet bugle
- beat
- basic unit of rythm . regular pulse that divides time into equal segments
- climax
- high point in a melody
- moderato
- moderate
- crescendo
- gradually louder
- decrescendo
- gradually softer
- rythm
- organization of movement in time
- dissonance
- notes that clash
- madrigal
- italian. voice with or without instruments set to a short lyric love poem
- syncopation
- a deliberate upsetting of the normal pattern of accentuation
- homorythmic
- where all the voices move in the same rythm
- neumatic
- 2-4 notes per syllable
- motet
- special part of the mass
- imitative polyphony
- where 4 different voices imitate eachother
- forte
- loud
- contrasting
- "b","c", etc
- ternary or 3 part form
- a b a
- binary or two part form
- ab or aabb
- phrase
- unit of meaning with in larger structure
- subdivide
- to divide the beat into smaller units
- percussion
- xylaphone snare drum bass drum triangle gong
- melismatic
- more than 5 notes per syllable
- acappella
- music without instruments
- heterophonic
- 2 or more voices elaborate the same melody at the same time
- consonance
- pleasing notes
- word painting
- musical pictorilization of words from the text
- humanism
- the lessening of the infulence of the church
- mezzo piano
- moderately soft
- proper
- changing parts of the mass
- piano
- soft
- meter
- organizing patterns of rythmic pulses
- cadence
- resting place
- adagio
- slow
- pianissimo
- very soft
- interval
- distance between 2 pitches
- accelerando
- speeding up
- homophonic
- one dominant voice plus supporting parts: melody & accompianiment
- triad
- a chord based on alternate scale steps
- harmony
- movement and relationships of intervals and chords
- fortissimo
- very loud
- major/minor
- two scales used in western music
- repetition
- "a","a" etc.
- nonmetric measure
- an obscured pulse. common in chants of the early christian church
- accent
- emphasis on a beat resulting in it being louder or longer than in a measure
- frequency
- # of vibrations per second. the higher the pitch the fatster the vibrations.the lower the pictch the slower the vibrations
- range
- the distance between the lowest and highest notes
- scale
- a series of pitches from lowest to highest with a specific set interval between each note
- tempo
- rate of speed or pace
- mass
- service in the catholic church
- machaut
- a composer of the middle ages wrote the first 4 voice ordinary of the mass
- movement
- complete self contained part within a larger musical work
- ritardando
- slwoing down
- ordinary unchanging parts of the mass
- kyrie gloria credo sanctus agnus dei
- syllabic
- one note per syllable
- allegro
- fast
- arts nova
- the new art of the 12th and 13th century
- octave
- interval between "a" and the next "a"
- melody
- line or tone in music