Sound
An art based on the organization of sounds in time
What is Music?
The highest sounding string instrument
What is the violin?
A regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal unites of time
What is the beat?
Western music uses the first letters of the alphabet to indicate
What is pitch?
Texture of a single melodic line without accompaniment
What is monophonic?
The four main properties of musical sounds are dynamics, tone color, duration, and
What is pitch?
Woodwind instruments are so named because they were originally
What is made of wood?
The organization of beats into regular groups
What is meter?
Music Notation: pitches are written on a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces
What is a staff?
The melody with accompanying parts similar to the rhythm of the melody
What is homophonic?
The relative volume level of a sound
What is dynamics?
The lowest sounding woodwind instrument in the orchestra
What is the contrabassoon?
The speed of the beat of the music
What is tempo?
A series of single notes which add up to a recognizable whole
Producing many sounds simultaneously
What is polyphonic?
A sound that has a definite pitch is music
What is pitch
The vibrations of brass instruments come from
What is the player's lips?
The element of music defined as the ordered flow of music through time, or the particular arrangement of note lengths in a piece of music
What is rhythm?
A part, or complete thought, within a melody
What is a phrase?
How many different layers of sound at the same time, what kind of layers of sound are heard, and how layers of sound are related to each other
What is musical texture?
Emphasizing a tone by playing it more loudly than the tones around it
What is an accent?
Plucking the string with the finger instead of using a bow
What is pizzicato?
A rhythmic characteristic of Jazz music
What is syncopation?
The musical element that refers to the way chords are constructed and how they follow each other
What is harmony?
Organization of musical elements in time
What is form?