Melody/Harmony
This is the direction of Melody, related to the name of our school.
Horizontal
The beat, is often referred to as this, like that of the cardiovascular system.
Pulse
Form in music is this, hopefully built strong!
The overall definition of dynamics. Better turn it up or down!
The Volume of Music
This is the textbook definition of Music.
The Combination of sounds, silence, and rhythm.
This is the direction of Harmony, we think of stacks of notes.
Vertical
The technical definition of rhythm is this.
Musical movement through time
This element of form will find itself over and over again in music.
Repetition
This means soft in Italian, but not the one that you play.
Piano
A musical sentence is often referred to as this.
Phrase
This collection of notes or pitches create this, 7 different, but 8 total.
Scale
These are the elements of rhythm, in sewing you have them to make clothes out of.
Patterns
This element of form, is found as something new, or we haven't heard yet.
Contrast
This term in Italian adds medium, can be added with soft and loud.
Mezzo
This is the distance from one note to another.
Interval
Harmonic Progressions are built on the principle of this, in easy terms dark vs. light.
Tension vs. Resolution
These are the most common forms of meter, remember your prefixes!
Duple, Triple, Quadruple
This element of form has the best of both worlds.
Variation
The Italian term for very, it is cute. Also can be added to soft and loud.
Issimo
A stack of notes is called this, but you don't plug it in.
Chord
Keys and Scales are considered happy or sad, or really this in technical terms.
Major or Minor
In written music, patterns are divided into these.
Measures
Timbre refers to this about music, not how it make one feel.
the description of the sound itself
When you add an extra Italian suffix to Very loud, you get this.
Fortississimo
This stack of three notes is the snowman of music.
Triad