Midterm Terms

Question 1

Pitch

Answer 1

Highness or lowness of a particular sound

Question 2

Duration

Answer 2

The length of time a particular sound last

Question 3

Timbre

Answer 3

Tone color, property that allows us to differentiate instruments or voices

Question 4

Amplitude

Answer 4

The loudness or softness of any particular sound

Question 5

Envelope, articulation

Answer 5

How a sound begins and ends

Question 6

Rhythm

Answer 6

Define’s musical time, pulse, meter and durational matter

Question 7

Melody

Answer 7

Sequence or series of pitches and musical time

Question 8

Harmony

Answer 8

Two or more pitches sounding simultaneously

Question 9

Mono phonic

Answer 9

Single line or melody

Question 10

Polyphonic

Answer 10

Two or more melodies sounding at the same time

Question 11

Homophonic

Answer 11

Melody plus and an ecompulant

Question 12

Dynamics

Answer 12

Same as amplitude

Question 13

Legato

Answer 13

Smooth on interrupted melodic line

Question 14

Staccato

Answer 14

Short and detached notes

Question 15

Marcato

Answer 15

Pitches in a melodic line are elotic

Question 16

Tempo

Answer 16

Rate of speed or Pulse at which the beat of a musical moves

Question 17

Tone color

Answer 17

Same as timbre

Question 18

Phrase

Answer 18

Short musical statement that presents as coherent but in complete

Question 19

Section

Answer 19

Larger structure created by a group of phases

Question 20

Cadence

Answer 20

Points of rest

Question 21

Motive

Answer 21

Small melodic ideas

Question 22

Libretto

Answer 22

Storyline or text in an opera

Question 23

Programmatic

Answer 23

Musical piece associated with a story, poem, idea, Of a scene

Question 24

Art song

Answer 24

Poems set to music with the relationship existing between the poetry and music

Question 25

Coda

Answer 25

Concluding section of music

Question 26

Sacred

Answer 26

Music of the church

Question 27

Secular

Answer 27

Music not of the church