Miscellaneous
Any mechanism that produces musical sounds.
What is a musical instrument?
How loud or soft music is
What are dynamics?
A regular repeating pulse that divides music into equal parts
What is the beat?
The name of the family this instrument belongs to
What is the Violin family?
How a musician uses melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color, dynamics, and texture in their own unique way.
What is style?
A group with a fixed number of beats
What is a measure?
The way we can tell which note is higher.
What is vibrating? (Vibrating at a higher frequency)
The first, or stressed, beat of a measure
What is the downbeat?
The section this loud instrument belongs to
What is the Brass section?
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The physical limits of a voice or instrument in which music is performed within, whether it is high or low.
What is range?
The distance between two pitches.
What is an interval?
How high or low a note is
What is pitch?
The speed of the beat
What is tempo?
The instrument section this low instrument belongs to
What is the Woodwind section?
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A series of notes that add up to a musical whole.
What is melody?
The section within a Jazz Big Band that keeps time and adds complexity to the music.
What is the rhythm section?
A tone is a sound that has a definite pitch. Each tone vibrates at a set number of cycles per second.
What is tone?
A note that is louder than the ones around it, just as we stress certain words or sounds in sentences as we are talking
What is accent?
The section this instrument belongs to
What is the percussion section?
When two or more notes are played at the same time.
What is harmony?
When an accent falls on a beat when we don't expect it
What is syncopation?
The way we can tell the difference between instruments
What is timbre? (Tone Color)
The organization of beats into regular groups
What is meter?
The correct order of the four prominent vocal parts
What is Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass?
Various categories of musical structure that describe the kind of musical voice you hear. Monophonic, Homophonic, Polyphonic.
What is texture?