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Environment that surrounds music, influences understanding, provides meaning, and connects to an event or occurrence
What is context?
Grouping of beats and divisions of beats in music, often in sets of twos (duple meter) or threes (triple meter)
What is meter?
A scale with whole and half steps arranged
W W H W W W H
What is Major?
Type of music created by combining contrasting styles into a new style
What is fusion?
Take a breath
What is breath mark?
Conceive and develop new artistic ideas, such as an improvisation, composition, or arrangement, into a work.
What is create?
Duration or length of sounds and silences that occur in music; organization of sounds and silences in time
What is rhythm?
Identification of a tone or note with respect to highness or lowness (that is, frequency)
What is pitch?
A form of music that alternates a main theme with variations A B A C A D A E A…
What is rondo?
4/4 time signature used throughout the world. (i.e. C)
What is common time?
Visual representation of musical sounds.
What is notation?
Underlying steady pulse present in most music
What is beat?
The sound that results from two or more tones being played at the same time
What is harmony?
To gradually become louder
What is crescendo?
Articulation that connects notes of different pitches; indicates a very smooth sound.
What is a slur?
Process of realizing artistic ideas and work through interpretation and presentation.
What is perform?
Act of moving in non-locomotor (for example, clapping, finger snapping) and locomotor (for example, walking, running) patterns to represent and interpret musical sounds.
What is movement?
Most commonly, the rhythmic recitation of rhymes or poems without a sung melody; a type of singing, with a simple, unaccompanied melody line and free rhythm.
What is chant?
How loud or soft the music should be played
What is dynamics?
Reminder that the bar line has cancelled an accidental. Also called "cautionary accidental".
What is a courtesy accidental?
Degree of skill and ability exhibited by a creator or performer to manipulate the elements of music in a composition or performance
What is craftsmanship?
A single musical idea or thought
What is phrase?
Linear succession of sounds (pitches) and silences moving through time; the horizontal structure of music.
What is melody?
Element of music describing the overall organization of a piece of music, such as AB, ABA, rondo, theme and variations, and strophic form.
What is form?
Rhythmic effect that places emphasis on a weak beat
What is syncopation?