Single Word Answers Flashcards by tiah brannigan

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What is major?

A

A happy sounding scale

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What is minor?

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A sad , depressing sounding scale

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What is atonal?

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Not pleasant

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What cadence sounds finished?

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Perfect

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What cadence sounds unfinished?

A

Imperfect

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Trill?

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Fast repetition of two notes

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Grace note?

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Small half notes

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Pentatonic scale?

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Used in Scottish music

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Chromatic scale?

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All the black and white notes

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Whole tone scale?

A

Very dreamy sounding

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Anacrusis?

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Starts before the first beat of the bar

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Scotch snap?

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Found in strathspeys , short , clipped notes

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Homophonic?

A

Everything flowing together in one direction

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Polyphonic?

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Everything moving in different directions

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Binary form?

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AB

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Ternary form?

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ABA

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Rondo form?

A

ABACADAE…

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Strophic form?

A

AAAA

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Syllabic?

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One note per syllable

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Melismatic?

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Many notes per syllable

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Arco?

A

Playing with a bow

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Pizzicato?

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A

Plucking the strings

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Distortion?

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A

An effect on electric guitar

Q

Reverb?

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A

An effect to create an echo

Rolls?

Fast hitting on percussion instruments

Con sordino?

A mute on a brass instrument

Accelerando?

Getting faster

Rallentando?

Getting slower

Crescendo?

Gradually getting faster

Diminuendo?

Gradually getting slower

Walking bass?

Jazz bass line

Alberti bass

Classical bass line

Ground bass?

Baroque , repeated throughout the piece

Soprano?

High female voice

Mezzo soprano?

Middle female voice

Alto?

Low female voice

Bass?

Low male voice

Baritone?

Middle male voice

Pedal?

Played by bass instrument

Inverted pedal?

Played by high instrument

Ostinato?

A pattern that repeats

5 music styles

Concerto?

Orchestra and solo instrument

Aria

Solo opera singer

Chorus

Voices in an opera in unison

Symphony

Only orchestra

Cadenza

Showing off part in a concerto for the soloist

Coda

The ending of the piece

Harpsichord?

Instrument from the baroque period

Modulation?

A change in key

Allegro?

Fast

Adagio?

Slow

Andante \ moderato?

Walking pace