Music and sound
Rhythm
Texture
Musical Instruments
Voices
100
This quality of sound tells us if a sound is high or low.
Pitch
100
How long it is a quarter note + half note
3 beats
100
What is monody?
The existence of just 1 melodic line in a musical piece.
100
Say the main instrumental families existing.
String, Wind and Percussion
100
Say the different feminine voices that exist.
Soprano, mezzosoprano, alto.
200
This quality tells us a sound's volume.
Intensity
200
What does Adagio mean?
Slow
200
What texture has this extract?
Homophony
200
What is this instrument? Say the family of instruments it belongs to.
Bassoon. Family of instruments: Woodwind
200
Say the 3 phases of voice production.
Breathing, phonation, resonance.
300
What sense is represented here?
Auditory sense
300
How long is a eighth note + quarter note + half note + eighth note?
4 beats
300
What texture has this extract?
Counterpoint.
300
What is this?
Chimes
300
Say the different male voices that exist.
Countertenor, tenor, baritone, bass.
400
What sound quality is represented here?
Pitch
400
What is tempo?
It's the music speed.
400
What do you think is imitative counterpoint?
A counterpoint that involves the repetition of a main melodic idea across different voices, with or without variations.
400
What is this instrument? What is its family of instruments?
English horn. Woodwind
400
What is a countertenor?
A tenor that can sing with soprano voice.
500
What is timbre?
The sound quality that tells us the source of the sound we are hearing.
500
What does Allegretto mean?
Less slow than Allegro
500
Listen to the beggining of the Grosse Fuge by Ludwig van Beethoven. What texture do we find here?
Monody
500
Say every instrument in the brass family.
Trumpet, trombone, French horn, tuba.
500
What part of the voice anatomy part is represented here?
Larynx