Listening, Hearing, and Writing
Listening with complete attention
What is active listening?
Medium tempo
What is moderato?
The volume of the music
What is dynamics?
Musical articulation that glides along smoothly
What is legato?
The pattern of musical changes in a piece
What is form?
Take a sound and put it into print, with a computer program or with a pencil and paper
What is to transcribe?
Speeding up the music
What is accelerando?
Loud
What is forte?
The speed of the music
What is tempo?
Music with two different sections
What is binary?
Paper that has lines on it that represent our musical staff
What is staff paper?
Slowing down the music
What is ritardando?
Soft
What is piano?
Game we played in class to help you learn about expressive elements (play it again as part of your review)
What is the vortex game?
Music with three sections
What is ternary?
A five-line visual representation of sound, where note values are written
What is a musical staff?
Very fast tempo
What is allegro?
Gradually get louder
What is crescendo?
Two staves, where the top set of lines is the treble clef, and the bottom is the bass clef
What is the grand staff?
Music with a recurring section
What is rondo?
Skills that help us listen to music and analyze what we hear
What are aural skills?
Slow tempo
What is adagio?
Gradually get softer
What is decrescendo?
Musical articulation using shorter, quicker notes
What is staccato?
The parts of sonata-allegro form
What are movements?