Element Of Music Flashcards
(24 cards)
▫ the time element of music.
▫ a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or
sound.
What is rhythm?
ta
1 sound/1 hearbeat
1 quarter note
ti-ti
2 even sounds/1 heart beat
2 eight notes
ta rest
no sound/1 heart beat
quarter rest
ta-a or two
1 sound/2 heart beats
1 half note
ti-ta–ti
3 uneven sounds/2 beats
syncopation
ti-bi-ti-bi/ti-ka-ti-ka
4 even sounds/1 heart beat
4 sixteenth notes
is traditional notation without the note heads for quarter and eight notes and sixteenth notes
Stick notation
A notational convention used
in Western musical notation
to specify how many beats
(pulses) are to be contained
in each bar and which note
value is to be given one beat.
indicates a
certain kind of note used to count the beat.
bottom number of the time signature
reveals how many beats are in each
measure.
top note
the foundation upon which notes are drawn
modern _ comprises five lines and four spaces
Staff
a type of musical clef used by instruments that play low-pitched notes
as it loops and wraps itself around the note F on a
stave
Bass clef/F clef
Is shaped like an ornamental letter G, and its inner curve surrounds the note
G4 that falls above middle C.
Many instruments—including the trumpet, violin, guitar, and
oboe—read music off the treble clef.
Treble clef/G clef
dotted half
3
dotted quarter
1 and 1/2
is a single note equivalent to or lasting as long as two half-notes or four quarter-notes
WHOLE NOTE
a note played for half the duration of a whole note and twice the duration of a quarter note.
HALF NOTE
note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note. Quarter notes are notated with a filled-in oval note head and a straight, flagless stem.
QUARTER NOTE
a musical note played for one eighth the duration of a whole note, hence the name
EIGHTH NOTE
a note played for half the duration of an eighth note, hence the names. It is the equivalent of the semifusa in mensural notation, first found in 15th-century notation. Sixteenth notes are notated with an oval, filled-in note head and a straight note stem with two flags.
SIXTEENTH NOTE
are intervals of silence in pieces of music, marked by symbols indicating the length of the pause. Each rest symbol and name corresponds with a particular note value, indicating how long the silence should last, generally as a multiplier of a measure or whole note.
Rests
double bar line
flat
sharp
natural
Rhythm
Time Signature
Musical Symbols
Tempo
Dynamics
Timbre
Melody
