Elements of Music
Highness or Lowness of Sound
What is pitch?
This instrument family produces sound by vibrating tight cables.
What is the string family?
The official music of the Roman Catholic church.
What is Gregorian Chant?
Unaccompanied choral/vocal music.
What is a capella?
A musical depiction of specific words.
What is word painting?
This is the musical term for the speed of the beat.
What is tempo?
Instruments in this family are played by being struck or hit.
What is the percussion family?
Main focus of secular music at the time.
What is dancing?
What is a motet?
A group of instruments playing together.
What is a consort?
This type of form is notated as ABABAB.
What is binary form?
This is the lowest-sounding brass instrument.
What is the tuba?
During this time period, this was the center of musical life.
What is the church?
A secular, polyphonic song based on poems, often about love.
What is a madrigal?
DAILY DOUBLE!
DAILY DOUBLE!
The organization of sounds in time.
What is music?
In the woodwind family, this changes the pitch of the instrument.
What is the length of the tube?
Who is Hildegard Von Bingen?
A music texture in which one voice has the melody, while the other parts serve as accompaniment.
What is homophony?
The musical center shifted from the church to ________.
The qualituy that identifies an instrument's sound, the tone color of the sound.
What is timbre?
This instrument is the highest-sounding instrument in the woodwind family.
What is the piccolo?
Who Gregorian Chant was named after.
Who is Pope Gregory I?
A polyphonic composition in which two or more melodies repeat each other at different points in the music.
What is counterpoint?
This type of music gained popularity during this time.
What is instrumental music?