Sound and Pitch
This is the first element of music we learned.
What is sound?
This term describes how loud or soft music is.
What are dynamics?
This is the highest female voicing.
What is soprano?
This term describes chords that are stable and restful.
What is consonant?
This type of describes music that is sung or played by itself.
What is monophonic texture?
This term describes how high or low a sound is.
What is pitch?
This dynamic level means to play soft.
What is piano?
These two places describe what we classify as "western" music.
What is America and Europe?
This term describes a series of notes that add up to a recognizable whole.
What is a melody?
Most popular music is this type of musical texture.
What is homophonic texture?
This term begins with the vibration of something.
What is sound?
This is the language in which dynamics are written in.
What is Italian?
This word can be described as any mechanism that produces a musical sound.
What is an instrument?
This term describes when two or more notes are played at the same time.
What is harmony?
The end of the song, "We Don't Talk About Bruno" is an example of this type of texture.
What is polyphonic texture?
This term describes the distance between two tones.
What is an interval?
This dynamic level means to play very loud.
What is fortissimo?
These four instruments make up the basic core of a popular band.
What are guitars, basses, keyboards, and drums?
Most Western music is a mix between these two things.
What is melody and harmony?
This texture describes two or more melodies played at the same time.
What is polyphonic texture?
This word describes a sound that has a definite pitch.
What is tone?
Changes in this allow for music to be given contrast.
What is tone color?
These are the six categories of musical instruments.
Strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, keyboards, and electronics?
This term describes the distance between a melodies highest and lowest notes.
What is a range?
This term is used to describe how a musician uses melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color, and texture in their own way.
What is style?