Elements of Form
The smallest unit for form
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motive (also spelled "motif")
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Sign: f
Meaning: loud
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forte
The four properties of a single isolated musical sound
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Pitch, Duration, Volume, and Timbre
ABACABA is an example of what kind of form?
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Rondo
Name at least one family of instruments in the Western orchestral
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Stringed instruments / Woodwinds / Brass / Percussion / Keyboards
The primary way that tension is created
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harmonic dissonance
Term: piano
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Meaning: quiet
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p
Pitch is
highness or lowness of a sound
What kind of note has a solid black oval note head and a stem?
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quarter note
The classification of the family of stringed instruments
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chordophones
A melodic or rhythmic motive that is repeated many times in immediate succession
ostinato
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Meaning: very loud
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fortissimo
ff
The distance (or interval) between "A" and the next higher or lower "A"
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octave
You are in the key of C major but you hear a c minor triad. This is an example of
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modal mixture
The Percussion family has 2 classifications which are
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Membranophones & IdiophonesA cohesive musical thought
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phrase
Term: pianissimo
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Meaning: very quietly
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pp
On a keyboard moving from right to left is called moving "down", moving from left to right is called
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moving "up"
Which instrument has a strong fundamental, first and third partial resulting in a pitch that sounds very much like a pure sine wave?
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clarinet
An instrument that starts with an s from one of the families classified as Aerophones
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saxophone
Occurs at the end of most phrases, themes, larger sections, and entire pieces of music
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cadences
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Sign: fff
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fortississimo
as loudly as possible
Music notation uses a five-line
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staff
What is the term used for moving a melody from one key into another key?
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transpose
Name at least 3 instruments from the Keyboard family
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Piano / Harpsichord / Organ / Celesta