Elements of Music
The speed at which a piece of music is performed.
What is tempo?
The abbreviation for musical instrument digital interface.
What is MIDI?
This is the name of the prerecorded sounds, tracks, and music in Soundtrap.
What are Loops?
This is the name of the musical form that follows an ABACA pattern.
What is Rondo?
What is rhythm?
This is the abbreviation for DAWs which are used for recording, editing and producing audio files.
What is Digital Audio Workstation?
This is the default tempo in Soundtrap.
What is 120?
This is the name of a 2 part form where an idea is stated followed by a contrasting idea.
What is Binary (AB) form?
The gradations of volume in music - loud, soft, crescendo, decrescendo.
What are dynamics?
A short, catchy, memorable musical idea that is often repeated.
Hint: Can represent a character or idea.
What is Riff/Leit Motif?
True or false. Soundtrap limits the amount of collaborators that can work on a project.
What is false?
An unlimited amount of people can work on a project together.
This is the name of the musical form that states an idea and then varies it with each repetition.
What is theme and vairations?
A succession of notes that are horizontal, varying in pitch and have an organized and recognizable shape.
What is melody?
This is the type of file you get when you download a compressed file of a project in Soundtrap.
What is .mp3?
This tool allows you to change the sound of a MIDI or loop without changing the instrument.
One example would be to add reverb.
What are effects?
The name of a 3 part musical form such as ABA.
What is ternary form?
The simultaneous sounding of 2 or more notes; can also be referred to as a chord.
What is harmony?
What is syncopation?
This tool allows users to adjust the dynamics aka volume, panning, and sweeping for an individual track.
What is Automation?
A musical form that follows no pattern, such as Bohemian Rhapsody or the Star Spangled Banner, are referred to as ____________-composed.
What is THROUGH-composed?