Rhythm
Quarter, Half, Whole, Eighth, and Sixteenth are all different types of this and twice is slower while half is faster
What is Note?
This is usually the most memorable part of the song
What is Melody?
This is our "happy" harmony and can be a chord, interval, or scale
What is Major?
This is the LOUDEST dynamic (very loud)
What is FORTISSIMO?
Typically sung/played by a single person without accompaniment
What is Monophony?
This tells you how many beats are in a measure and what type of note gets the beat
What is Time Signature?
A set of five lines and four spaces
What is Staff?
This is our "sad" harmony and can be a chord, interval, or scale
What is Minor?
This is the simultaneous variation of a melodic line
What is Homophony?
This is a unit of time within music
What is Measure?
What is Treble/Treble Clef?
This is the distance between any two pitches
What is Interval?
This means to gradually get louder like the old school Movie intro
What is Crescendo?
A texture where there is one main line that is supported by one or more other lines
What is Heterophony?
This is the Speed of Music
What is Tempo?
This clef places F above middle C on the fourth line of the staff, it is usually for our LOWER notes
This is any set of pitches that are sounded simultaneously or played at the same time
What is Chord?
This is a song that has TWO main parts
What is Binary?
two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, think about a mashup
What is Polyphony?
This is a type of meter where beats a grouped into groups of four or subdivided into groups of 2
What is Simple?
succession of pitches in ascending or descending order, it goes in a straight line
What is Scale?
This is similar to solo but it can be multiple musicians playing or singing the same note or melody
What is Unison?
This is a song that has three main parts (ABA), it may help to this of the Spanish term for the number three...
What is Ternary?
The relationship between two or more lines that are harmonically interdependent yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour
What is Counterpoint?