The Voice
Tempo & Dynamics
Instruments
Potpourri
What is it?
200

The lowest register.

Bass

200

A dynamic which means quiet.

Piano
200

This instrument family uses air to create sound.

Aerophones

200

An interval.

The space from note to note. Conjunct vs. disjunct.

200

Rhythm

The movement of music through time.

400

Nonsense Syllables

Non-lexical

400

Walking Tempo.

Andante

400

This string vocabulary means to slide the pitch.

Glissando

400

Socrates

A complete individual should have an education of the mind, the body, and the soul.

400

Genre

A type or category of music.

600

One syllable held over many notes.

Melismatic

600

To gradually get quieter.

Decrescendo.

600

An English Horn is this type of instrument.

Woodwind

600

ABA

Ternary Form

600

1600-1750

Baroque Era

800

The part of a song that repeats over and over. It is the catchy one.

Chorus or Refrain.

800

To return to the original tempo.

A Tempo

800

Harp comes from this instrument family.

Chordophone

800

Timbre

The sound quality of a pitch.

800
Frequency

The number of times a pitch vibrates per second.

1000

If music is for the church it would be described as this.

Sacred

1000

Tempo and dynamics lend themselves to this aspect of music making.

Interpretation.

1000
Idiophones make sound by doing one of these three ways of playing.

Struck, Shaken, or Scraped

1000

A movement.

A part of a large work. Like a chapter in a book.

1000

Pentatonic

A scale based on 5 notes.

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