Sound and Music
Pitch, Rhythm, and Harmony
Pitch, Rhythm, and Harmony pt 2
Pitch, Rhythm, and Harmony pt 3
pt 4
Other Aspects of Musical Sound
100
What is the frequency of a pure sine wave and what note does it sound like?
440 Hz, A above middle C
100
Define pitch
The highness or lowness of a sound
100
Define the name for the scale with twelve different pitches in ascending order.
The chromatic scale
100
Define rhythm
the way music is organized in time
100
What is meter indicated by?
Time signature
100
How many notes does a dominant seventh chord have? (extra 100 if you can list the last interval)
4 notes, the last one is a minor 7th away from the root
200
What is it called when composition and performance happen simultaneously?
Improvisation
200
Define the musical interval between one note and another note with double or half its frequency.
Octave
200
What is the name for two names identical in pitch? (ex. D# and Eb)
Enharmonic pitches
200
What is the name of the speed of the beat?
Tempo
200
What is a polyrhythm?
When two conflicting rhythmic patterns are present simultaneously.
200
What is texture in music?
The number of things that are going on at once in a piece of music
300
What part of a membranophone moving actually creates the sound wave?
A vibrating membrane
300
What is the distance between any two admacent keys on a keyboard
A half-step, or semitone
300
What is the distance between two pitches called?
An interval
300
What is a meter?
The pattern of emphasis superimposed on groups of beats
300
What is a triad?
A three-note chord that has 2 intervals in it
300
What do piano and forte mean?
soft and loud
400
Name the 5 families of instruments
Strings, Brass instruments, Woodwinds, Percussion, and keyboard
400
What are the names of the symbols used to indicate that a given pitch has been raised or lowered? Describe what they look like as well.
Sharp #, Flat, (looks similar to a lowercase b)
400
Describe the difference between a harmonic and a melodic interval.
Harmonic pitches occur simultaneously, melodic pitches occur in succession
400
Name types of meters
Duple, triple, quadruple, or irregular (asymmetrical)
400
Describe what an inversion is (first, second)
When the bottom note moves to the top in an octave (sorry bad explanation)
400
What is a gradual increase and a decrease in dynamics called?
crescendo, decrescendo or diminuendo.
500
What is the term for when electronically generated sounds or sounds produced by live instruments are recorded onto tape where they could be edited, etc to form collages of sound perfomed by loudspeaker
musique concrete
500
What are the three main clefs used today? Name the letter name and the alternative name for the two.
G-clef (treble), F-clef(base), C-clef
500
Name the three varieties of minor scales.
Harmonic, melodic, and natural (pure)
500
What is the difference between relative major and minor and parallel major and minor?
Relative major and minor have the same pitches and different tonics, parallel major and minor begin and end on the same scale
500
What is the name of this image?
The Circle of fifths
500
Name the 4 types of texture in Western music
Monophony, homophony, polyphony, and heterophony.