Exam 1 Flashcards
(41 cards)
4 different ways to describe pop music
Mainstream
Universal aesthetic
High demand
Related to traditional activity
Timbre
Quality or color of sound
Vibrato
Wobbly mess in instruments and voices
Glissando
Slide between 2 notes up or down
Falsetto
High range that males sing at
Dynamics
How loud or soft sound is
Articulation
Punctuation in music
Ornamentation
Any kind of ornamenting of the music
Pitch
Note
Interval
Space between notes
Melody
Tune
Contour
Shape of the music
Drone
Constant through whole song/performance
Heterophony
Stuck to melody, but adding own ornamentations
Polyphony
Canon or around; 2 or more melodies happening at the same time
Unison (monophony)
Singing or playing in unison
Vocables
When people sing with no sent syllables
Syllabic
When singing, every note there’s a different syllable
Melismatic
When sing multiple notes on one syllable
Staggered entries
When you come in at different times
Repetition and variation
When a piece of a song is repeated over and over again and varied
Call and response
One side calls out one thing and the other responds with another thing
Motif
Reoccurring theme that happens
Phrase
Musical phrase