Melody
Rhythm
Harmony
Texture
Form
100
A succession of single pitches that we hear as a recognizable whole
What is a melody?
100
It moves music forward in time.
What is rhythm?
100
The simultaneous combination of sounds.
What is harmony?
100
The interweaving of the melodic lines with harmony.
What is texture?
100
The organizing principle in music, based in repetition, contrast, and variation.
What is form?
200
The distance between the lowest and highest notes.
What is range?
200
A regular pulse that divides time into equal segments.
What is beat?
200
The simultaneous sounding of three or more pitches.
What is a chord?
200
The texture consisting of a single melody.
What is monophony?
200
It features repeated music for each stanza of text.
What is strophic?
300
A melody that moves in small, connected intervals.
What is conjunct?
300
Duple, triple, and quadruple are the most common.
What is simple meter?
300
A combination of three notes that can be built on any note of a scale by combining every other note.
What is a triad?
300
A many-voiced texture in which two or more different melodic lines are combined, based on counterpoint.
What is polyphony?
300
In this form, there are no large, repeated sections.
What is through-composed?
400
A resting place that punctuates the music, much like a comma or period punctuates a sentence.
What is a cadence?
400
Each beat is divided into three, instead of two.
What is compound meter?
400
The principle of organization around the tonic.
What is tonality?
400
A single melody is prominent, supported by blocks of harmony, or chords.
What is homophony?
400
The two basic structures in music.
What is binary and ternary?
500
The high point in a melodic line
What is the climax?
500
The accent is shifted to the weak beat.
What is syncopation?
500
A combination of notes that sounds unstable and in need of resolution.
What is dissonance?
500
This is where all of the voices or lines move together in the same rhythm.
What is homorhythm?
500
A melodic idea in a large-scale work that can be broken into small, component fragments.
What is a theme?
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