Melody
The distance between the highest and lowest note in a piece of music.
What is the range?
This form uses the letters AB.
What is binary form?
The movement of music in time.
What is meter?
The instruments in this family make their sound with the help of a reed.
What is the woodwind family?
What is a downbeat?
A melody that moves in small intervals within a connected manner.
What is conjunct?
This form uses the letters ABA.
What is ternary form.
The basic unit of rhythm.
What is beat?
The highest treble voice.
What is a soprano?
The first note of the scale and the home base around which the other notes in a piece revolve.
What is the tonic?
What is disjunct?
This form is written where the same music is played and sung through multiple verses with changing words.
What is strophic form?
Meter in which the beat is divided into groups of two.
What is simple meter?
The instruments in this family make their sound through hitting or scraping.
What is percussion?
The simultaneous combination of sounds.
What is harmony?
A resting place within a piece of music.
What is a cadence?
This form is characterized by several returns to the A section. One common form is ABACA.
What is rondo form?
Meter in which the beat is divided into groups of three.
What is compound meter?
The lowest voice part in a choir.
What is bass?
Music which draws from the full selection of the twelve notes which span the octave.
What is chromatic?
Trace the contour of the section of melody given to you in brackets and tell us if the melody in that section is conjunct or disjunct.
What is conjunct?
This is the form of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
This is the meter of the song, Row, Row, Row, your Boat.
What is compound meter?
This instrument family has evolved through the years and has included instruments such as the harpsichord and the pianoforte.
A texture in which two or more different melodic lines are combined.
What is polyphony?