Intro to Music
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ConcertMaster | first violinist that plays solo violin passages and coordinates the bowing of string instruments. |
| 3 Types of Brass Instruments | Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba |
| 3 Types of Percussion Instruments | Bass drum, Cymbals, Snare drum |
| 3 Types of Woodwind Instruments | Flute, Clarinet, Piccolo |
| 3 Types of String Instruments | Guitar, Violin, Double basses |
| Four voice categories found in a choir | Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass |
| Pitch | The highness or lowness of a sound |
| Range | Distance between the highest and lowest tones that a given voice or instrument can produce. |
| Tone | Sound that has a definite pitch, or frequency. |
| Interval | Distance in pitch between any two tones. |
| Octave | Interval between two tones in which the higher tone has twice the frequency of the lower tone. |
| Dynamics | Degrees of loudness or softness in music. |
| Accent | Emphasis of a note, which may result from it being louder, longer or higher in pitch. |
| Tone color (Timbre) | Quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument or voice from another. |
| Rhythm | Ordered flow of music through time. |
| Beat | Regular, recurrant pulsation that divides music into equal units of time. |
| Downbeat | First, or stressed beat of a measure. |
| Meter | Organization of beats into regular groups. |
| Syncopation | Accenting of a note at an unexpected time, as between two beats or in a weak beat. |
| Tempo | Basic pace of the music. |
| Notation | System of writing down music so that specific pitches and rhythms can be communicated. |
| Staff | A set of five horizontal lines between or on which notes ar positioned. |
| Sharp SIgn # | Symbol which notates a pitch one half step higher than the pitch. |
| Flat Sign b | Symbol which notates a pitch one half step lower than the pitch. |
| Clef | Symbol placed at the beginning of the staff to show that exact pitch of notes placed on each line and space. |
| Rest | A symbol to indicate a duration of silence in the music. |
| Time signature | Two numbers one above the other, appearing at the beginning of a staff or the start of a piece. |
| Melody | Series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole. |
| Step | Interval between two adjacent tones in the scale. |
| Leap | Interval larger than that between two adjacent tones in the scale. |
| Phrase | Part of a melody |
| Legato | Smooth, connected manner of performing a melody. |
| Staccato | Short, detached manner of performing a melody. |
| Sequence | The immediate repition of a melodic pattern on a higher or lower pitch. |
| Cadence | Resting place at the end of a phrase in a melody. "conclusion" |
| Harmony | How chords are constructed and how they follow each other. |
| Chord | Combination of three or more tones sounded at once. |
| Consonance | tone combination that is stable and restful. |
| Dissonance | Tone combination that is unstable and tense. |
| Triad | mose basic of chords, consisting of three alternate tones of the scale, such as do, mi, sol. |
| Arpeggio | "Broken chord" sounding of the individual tones of a chord in sequence rather than simultaneously. |
| Key (tonality) | Central note, scale, and chord within a piece, in relationship to which all other tones in the composition are heard. |
| Major scale | Series of seven different tones within an octave, with an eighth tone repeating the first tone an octave higher. |
| Minor scale | Series of seven tones within an octave with an eighth tone repeating the first tone an octave higher. |
| Half Step | Smallest interval traditionally used in western music. |
| Whole Step | Interval twice as large as the half step. |
| Key signature | Sharp or flat signs immediately following the clef sign at the beginning of a piece of music indicating the key in which the music is to be played. |
| Chromatic scale | Scale including all twelve tones of the octave. |
| Modulation | Shift from one key to another within the same piece. |
| Monophonic texture | Single melodic line without accomplishment. |
| Polyphonic texture | Performance of two or more melodic lines of relatively equal interest at the same time. |
| Unison | Performance of a single melodic line by more than one instrument or voice at the same pitch or in different octaves. |
| Imitation | Presentation of a melodic idea by one voice or instrument that is immediatly followed by its restatement by another voice or instrument. |
| Form | Organization of musical ideas in time. |
| Three part form (Ternary) (ABA) | Form that can be represented as statement (A) contrast (B) return of statement (A). |
| Two part form (AB) | Form that can be represented as statement (A) and counterstatement (B). |
| Musical Texture | refers to how many different layers of sound are heard at once to what kind of layers there are. |
| Italian tempo markings | largo-very slow grave-very slow adagio-slow allegro-fast |
| Italian dynamics | pianissimo-very soft piano-soft mezzo piano-mod soft mezzo forte-mod loud forte-loud fortissimo-very loud |
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