Elements of Music Flashcards
(17 cards)
Pythagoras is credited with discovering?
The mathematical ratios of musical intervals.
The steps in a Diatonic scale are a combination of?
Whole steps and half steps.
Italian dynamics markings for very loud and very soft are?
Fortissimo (ff) and Pianissimo (pp).
The pitch of a note describes?
How high or low a sound is.
A five note scale is called?
Pentatonic scale.
A scale consisting of all half-steps and 12 tones is?
Chromatic scale.
A group of a fixed number of beats between bar lines is a?
Measure.
An emphasis placed in an unexpected place offsetting the flow of beats is?
Syncopation.
The rate of speed of the music is called?
Tempo.
The weak beats in a measure falling between strong beats are called?
Offbeats.
This beat occurs right before a measure.
Anacrusis.
Plucking strings with the fingers on a violin is called?
Pizzicato.
The instruments in a string quartet are?
Two violins, viola, and cello.
The bassoon is a member of which family?
Woodwind.
The instruments in a woodwind quintet are?
Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and French horn.
Which keyboard instrument plucks the strings?
Harpsichord.
The members of the brass quintet are?
Two trumpets, French horn, trombone, tuba.
