Misc.
The Volume of Music
What are "dynamics?"
The Harpsichord belongs to this family
What are Keyboards?
The rapid movement of a medium that has been made to vibrate
What is a Sound Wave?
The steady pulse or heartbeat in music.
What is the beat?
Music that has more than one melodic line
What is polyphonic?
The most memorable portion of a song.
What is Melody?
Refers to how loud or soft the music can be.
What is "Amplitude"?
The tuba belongs to this instrument family.
What is brass?
A note produced from organized sound waves
What is Definite Pitch?
Vertical lines in music
What are bar lines?
Music that has one melodic line
What is monophonic?
A visual metaphor of a melody
What is Shape?
Bass, Tenor, Alto, Soprano
What are the 4 main vocal ranges?
The Harp belongs to this instrument family.
What is Strings?
The study of how sound behaves in physical spaces.
What is Acoustics?
Binds music together in time
What is rhythm?
The organization of all musical elements in time
What is Form?
The way a melody is accompanied
What is Harmony?
Tone color or Tone quality
What is Timbre?
Xylophone belongs to this instrument family
What is percussion?
The distance between 2 pitches
What is Interval?
What are polyrhythms?
Music that has one melodic line and accompaniment
What is homophonic?
The distance between the lowest and highest notes of a melody
What is Range?
Derived from a particular culture & withstood the test of time.
What is Folk Music?
The Gong belongs in this instrument family
What is Percussion?
How low or high a pitch can be
What is "Frequency"?
The way beats are grouped together in music.
A set of lyrics that recur in the same piece of music
What is chorus?
A chord that has 4 pitches
What is a seventh Chord?
Inventor of the staff notation system
Who is Guido?
The Clarinet belongs to this instrument family
What are Woodwinds?
The intentional organization of sounds in time by and for humans
What is Music?
The speed of the beat in music
What is Tempo?
How musical lines interact.
What is Texture?
Sound harsh to our ears, convey tension or instability
What is dissonant?