Harmony
Key
Musical Texture
Musical Form
Performance & Style
100
The combination of three or more tones sounded at once.
What is a chord?
100
Refers to a central note, scale, and chord withing a piece.
What is key?
100
two or more melodic lines of relatively equal interest produces this type of texture.
What is polyphonic?
100
The organization of musical elements in time.
What is musical form?
100
Creating music in real time.
What is improvisation?
200
The way chords are constructed and how they follow each other.
What is harmony?
200
Another term for key.
What is tonality?
200
A single melodic line without accompaniment.
What is monophonic texture?
200
Three-Part form is also known as this.
What is ternary form?
200
An artist of extraordinary technical mastery.
What is a virtuoso?
300
A tone combination that is stable and restful.
What is a consonance?
300
Scale made up of the twelve tones in one octave.
What is the chromatic scale?
300
Refers to how many layers of sound are heard at once, to what kind of layers they are, and how they are related to each other.
What is musical texture?
300
Two-part form is also known as this.
What is binary form?
300
Stylistic period from 1750 to 1820
What is the classical?
400
A broken chord.
What is an arpeggio?
400
A shift from one key to another within the same piece.
What is a modulation?
400
One main melody accompanied by chords.
What is homophonic texture?
400
When notating form, uppercase letters are used to indicate this.
What are large sections?
400
A leader of a group of musicians, represents responsibility and authority.
What is the conductor?
500
This chord is built upon the fifth note of the scale.
What is the dominant chord?
500
Pattern for this is whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half.
What is the major scale?
500
Technique of combining several melodic lines into a meaningful whole.
What is counterpoint?
500
Creates a sense of unity.
What is repetition?
500
Stylistic period between 1450 and 1600.
What is the renaissance?
M
e
n
u