General
Music is defined as...
organized sounds in time.
In music, a definite pitch is called a ____.
Tone
________ is the flow of music through time.
Rhythm
The combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords and chord progressions is called ______.
harmony
_____ is the layering of sound and how the layers relate to one another.
texture
Sound begins as the result of a ________ object.
vibrating
_____ can be defined as the highness or lowness of sound.
Pitch
The recurrent pulse in music is called the ________.
Beat
A chord is _____ or more notes sounded at once.
3
______________ texture is one melody.
Monophonic
______ determines how high or low a sound is (pitch).
Frequency
An interval is the ______ between two tones.
distance
The _________ is the speed of the beat.
tempo
consonance
_________ texture is multiple melodic lines played at once.
Polyphony
______ determines how loud a sound is (dynamics).
Amplitude
_______ refers to the relative loudness of sound.
Dynamics
A series of notes that add up to a recognizable whole is called ______.
Melody
the quality of a musical sound that distinguishes it is called
timbre
__________ texture is one melody with harmonic accompaniment.
Homophonic
pitch, dynamics, rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, and texture
List the dynamic in order from softest to loudest.
pp p mp mf f ff
A melody has a beginning, middle, and end, is made up of phrases, and has ______ and _____.
tension and release
Timbre is also called
tone color
_________ texture is one melodic line in multiple octaves played in together.
Unison