Flashcards in Test One Deck (37)
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Measure of high and low
Pitch
2
Measure of loud and soft
Dynamic
3
How long the sound lasts
Duration
4
Quality of sound
Timbre
5
Music is written on a
Staff
6
____ must be present in order to tell where the notes are
Clef
7
Mezzo means medium
True
8
Piano means
Soft
9
Forte means
Loud
10
Decrescendo and diminuendo mean the same thing
True
11
Two clefs
Bass
Treble
12
Treble clef is identified by which letter
G
13
Bass clef is identified by which letter
F
14
Mr. Whitt plays what instrument
French horn
15
Name of the piece of wood that is placed on a woodwind instrument to cause it to vibrate
Reed
16
Only brass instrument that
Doesn't have valves
Trombone
17
Instruments are grouped according to how they
Vibrate
18
Produce sound through air
Aerophones
19
Solid instruments that produce sound by being struck, scraped, or shaken
Idiophones
20
Produce sound by striking or rubbing
A skin or membrane
Membranophones
21
Create sounds by striking, running, plucking a string
Chordophones
22
Top number of a time signature
How many beats per measure
23
Bottom number of a time signature
Which note gets the beat
24
Three types of musical textures
Monophonic
Polyphonic
Homophonic
25
Highest male voice
Tenor
26
Four main voice parts
Soprano
Tenor
Bass
Alto
27
Musical texture that involves one musical line
Monophonic
28
Musical texture that has a musical line with chordal accompaniment
Homophonic
29
Musical texture that has many musical lines occurring at the same time
Polyphonic
30
Lowest female voice part
Alto
31
Largo
Very slow
32
Adagio
Slow
33
Andante
Walking tempo
34
Moderato
Moderate
35
Allegro
Fast
36
Relationship of the instrument size to pitch
The bigger the instrument, the lower the pitch. The smaller the instrument, the higher the pitch
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