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Music App. Vocab Test3

Terms in this set (56)

Pitch
The highness or lowness of a sound
Interval
The difference or distance between 2 points
Arpeggio
Notes of a chord played in succession
Octave
Auditory duplication of a pitch either higher or lower. 8 pitches in a diatonic scale
Enharmonic tones
two different names for the same pitch
Diatonic scale
A seven note scale plus the octave
Chromatic Scale
Comprised of all half steps
Staff
5 lines and 4 spaces on which musical notes are written
Clef
a French word meaning clue; specifies a certain line on the staff to be a certain pitch
Key
Any song can begin on a different note
Tonic
The main, central-sounding note of a song
Tonality
An overall feeling of one note being the center of a piece of music
Modulation
Changing key within the same piece of music
Key signature
A collection of sharps. or flats at the beginning of music
Accidental
Cancels the key signature temporarily
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