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Non-harmonic Tones
Voicing Leading
Voicing
Spacing
Position
100
The non-harmonic tone that is prepared by skip then resolved by step
What is an Appogiatura?
100
When the voices in four-part writing move in different directions.
What is Contrary Motion?
100
The upper female voice. The top note in a chord in standard four-part writing.
What is the Soprano?
100
When the root of a chord is doubled.
What is Doubling?
100
When the root note of a chord is in the bass.
What is Root Position?
200
A non-harmonic tone that is approached by step but then remains the same in the next chord
What is an Anticipation?
200
When one voice stays the same while the others move
What is Oblique Motion?
200
The higher male voice in four-part writing.
What is the Tenor
200
When the third note of a triad becomes the base note.
What is First Inversion?
200
When there is more than an octave between the tenor and soprano voices.
What is Open Position?
300
The conclusion of a musical phrase or idea
What is the Resolution?
300
Parallel intervals that are to be avoided at all times in four-part writing.
What is Objectionable Parallels (P5 and P8)?
300
The lower male voice. The bottom note in standard four-part writing.
What is the Bass?
300
When the top note of a triad is placed as the root note.
What is Second Inversion?
300
When there is less than an octave between the tenor and soprano voices.
What is Close Position?
400
Two non-harmonic tones used consecutively in succesion
What is a Neighbor group?
400
When the voices in four-part writing, exchange notes in order to prolong a chord.
What is Voice Exchanging?
400
The common lower female voice. The second note from the top in standard four-part writing.
What is the Alto
400
When a line crosses above or below a pitch recently sounded by another voice.
What is Overlapping Voices?
400
When the seventh of a chord becomes the root.
What is Third Inversion?
500
A melodic embellishment that is written or can be improvised
What is an Ornament?
500
The simultaneous or adjacent occurrence of a note in its natural and chromatically inflected (#/b) form in different voices. This creates dissonance.
What is Cross Relation?
500
Music Tonal quality or blend of an instrument in an ensemble, especially a jazz ensemble, or of the ensemble as a whole.
What is Voicing?
500
The arrangement of voices in four-part writing to achieve legibility or aesthetic appeal.
What is Spacing?
500
When you place another chord member below the root note in a chord in four-part writing.
What is an Inversion