Final Flashcards

(36 cards)

1
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Melody

A

A line or tune in music

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2
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Rhythm

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What moves music forward in time

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3
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Meter

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Organizes Bears (duple, triple, quadruple)
each beat divided into two

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4
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dissonance

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Unstable or distorted combinations of music

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5
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Polyphony

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two or more voices

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6
Q

Consonance

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Producing stable sounds

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7
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Monophony

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Single voice

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8
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Form

A

Organizing principle in music

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9
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Binary Form

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Two parts (a-B) B sounds different

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10
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Ternary form

A

three parts ABA

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11
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Ostinato

A

Repetition of short melodic lines

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12
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Tempo

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Rate of speed for music

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13
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Dynamics

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Volume of music

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14
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Secular

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Non-religious music

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15
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Sacred

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REligious music

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16
Q

Aerophones

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Needs air to create sound

17
Q

Chordophones

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strings ( violins, guitars)

18
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Membranophones

19
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Idiophones

A

Stike/hit/shake

20
Q

Strings

A

Guitar harp banjo

21
Q

Woodwinds

A

Flutes Clarinet saxophones

22
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brass

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trumpet french horn

23
Q

a cappella

24
Q

string quartet

25
Vernacular
language of the people
26
Troubadours
Southern france traveled musicians
27
Plainchant
Features monophonic non- melodic melodics
28
Ars Nova
New art early 1300s
29
Madrigal
Secular choral Music
30
opera
New genre in the baroque period
31
Aria
song tune in italian
32
Church Cantatas
Bach written for the lutheran church
33
Oratorio
Large scale dramatic music
34
Concerto
genre that generally featured a solo instrument or small group of soloist
35
Program Music
Instrumental music sacred (no staging or costumes)
36
Fugue
Melodies overlapping/ polyphonic form