Pitch
Music that has no tonal centre or home key.
Atonal
Refers to the speed of the music
Tempo
What is a stanza?
A set of lines of poetry with fixed length, meter or rhyme scheme. Usually repeated. A chorus.
notes are attacked strongly with emphasis
A 6 note scale often heard in the genre of jazz music.
______________ time signatures have even divisions of beats in a bar.
Simple
What is ABA form?
Ternary form
a slide from one note to another
glissando
The most common scale system.
Diatonic
Refers to the grouping of beats in a piece of music and the basis for measuring musical time.
Metre
What is AB form?
Binary form.
notes are short and detached
A 12 note scale consisting of semitones.
Chromatic scale.
Refers to the strong beat or emphasis on the two and four beat, mostly heard in mainstream or popular.
Backbeat
What the 8 bar section in a pop or jazz song used for a solo instrumental commonly called?
The middle 8.
a rapid repetition of the same note
tremelo
The name given to the fourth church mode.
Lydian
__________ rhythm, or free rhythm is often improvised for expression.
Irregular
What is a piece of music called that has a number of sections changing or not related to previous material?
Rhapsody
held for the full value of the note
tenuto