Metric Elements
The speed of music.
What is tempo?
The frequency of a sound/note.
What is pitch?
The organization of different ideas or sections of music.
What is form?
The volume of music.
What are dynamics?
Groups of music with similar characteristics.
What are genres?
The fundamental unit of time in music.
What is "Beat?"
A collection of pitches organized into a scale.
What is a key signature?
A musical texture with only one melody and no independent voices.
What is monophonic?
A musical term for gradually increasing volume.
What is a crescendo?
The type(s) of instruments used to play a piece of music.
What is instrumentation?
The organization of beats into repeating cycles.
What is meter?
The note names used to represent pitches in music.
What are A - B - C - D - E - F - G?
A musical texture with multiple independent melodies.
What is polyphonic?
A musical term for a gradual decrease in volume.
What is a decrescendo?
A key signature with five flats.
What are D flat major and B flat minor?
The subdivision or pairing of beats to create notes of varying lengths.
What is rhythm?
The secondary voice(s) in a piece of music.
What is harmony?
A musical texture with a melody and accompaniment.
A musical term that translates to "Medium-Loud"
What is Mezzo Forte?
The two most common musical modes.
What are major and minor?
A tempo in the BPM range of Allegro.
What is 120 - 168 BPM?
A series of pitches used to form a musical idea.
A musical melody played in multiple voices but altered slightly in each voice.
What is heterophonic?
The quietest dynamic level with an unaltered Italian word to describe it (translates to very soft)
What is pianissimo?
The composer whose death is used to mark the end of the baroque period of music history.
Who is J. S. Bach?