Melody
The act of listening to music intently
Active Listening
what is triad?
It's considered the driving force of a song/unit of pulse
what is beat
The musical term for slow tempo
Adagio
The chamber group that uses three instruments
What is trio
The three melodic ranges
what is narrow medium wide?
The tonality that brings happy, cheerful thoughts
What is major?
The beat that is heavily emphasized
what is accented beat
The musical expression that gradually grows from piano to mezzo-piano
Crescendo
The instrument that is also called 'fiddle' in certain genres
What is violin?
The contour shape that moves up and down at a slow pace
what is arch
The term we use to describe harmony that is pleasing to our ears and is in 99% of the music we listen to
what is consonance?
The most popular/common meter you see in modern music
what is 4/4 meter
Or
Quadruple
The texture we use to describe a single melody with no accompaniment
What is Monophony?
The only keyboard instrument that plucks a string to create sound
What is Harpsichord?
The resting point in a phrase that gives you a feeling of completion
what is authentic cadence?
The act of changing from one tonality to another
what is modulation?
A combination of many rhythms played simultaneously
what is polyrhythm
The act of gradually getting faster
What is Accelerando?
Which brass instruments are cylindrical?
trumpet, trombone
Vulfpeck's 'Animal Spirits' is the example of this contour
Descending contour
It establishes a tonality many film composers and traditional Indian artists use to build their compositions from
what is drone?
What is the rhythmic meter of, 'Die with a smile' by Bruno Mars/Lady Gaga?
what is compound meter? or 6/8 meter?
The most common texture we hear in music today
What is homophony?
What is the exact instrumentation for a brass quintet
two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba