Melody and Harmony
You call that fast?
This and That
Dynamically Instrumental
Your guess is as good as mine
100
A series of single notes that add up to a recognizable whole.
What is a melody?
100
A steady pulse.
What is a beat?
100
The character or quality of a sound.
What is timbre or tone color?
100
Loud in Italian
What is forte?
100
A short vibrating element will make this kind of pitch.
What is a high pitch.
200
A harmony that is at rest or stable
What is Consonance.
200
A meter where the beats are equally divided into three parts, regardless of the number of beats in the measure.
What is compound meter
200
The pause or sense of arrival at the end of a phrase
What is a cadence?
200
An instrument that creates sound using a column of air
What is an aerophone
200
A rhythmic device where normally unaccented beats are accented.
What is syncopation
300
The texture of "Row your boat" when sung in a round.
What is imitative polyphony?
300
Gradually slowing down?
What is ritardando.
300
This type of scale has 7 distinct pitches, with 2 half steps and 5 whole steps, and spans an octave.
What is diatonic?
300
Gradually getting louder
What is a "crescendo"?
300
The difference between genre and form
Genre has to do with the large elements of a work, form has to do with the internal structure
400
Specific groupings of three or more notes sounding together
What is a chord?
400
Very fast in Italian
What is "presto"?
400
The the two most commonly used modes that are arrangements of a diatonic scale.
What are major and minor?
400
An instrument that creates sound by a vibrating string
What is a chordophone
400
A texture with two or more independent melodies
What is Polyphony
500
A texture with a single unaccompanied melody.
What is monophonic.
500
A meter with three beats.
What is triple meter.
500
The extra pitches that sound above a fundamental pitch that allow us to hear timbre and distinguish different instruments.
What are overtones?
500
Two types of instruments: one that create sounds from vibrating membranes and one by the entire element vibrating.
What are idiophones and membranophones?
500
The Greek mathematician that created the idea of proportion in music (scales) is named?
Pythagorus
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