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Meter
Timbre
Texture
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Potpourri
100
The top number in the time signature stands for this. (TH)
What is beats per measure?
100
The family of instruments that trumpets belong to.
What are brass?
100
This texture is characterized by one harmony and multiple melodies. (AS)
What is polyphony?
100
This clef is often referred to as 'F clef' and is often used for lower instruments.
What is bass clef?
100
Gregorian chant characterizes THIS type of texture, played here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlr90NLDp-0
What is monophonic?
200
The bottom number in the time signature stands for this. (TH)
What is the note that gets the beat?
200
Color is to painting as _______ is to music.
What is timbre?
200
It means sound in latin.
What is phonic?
200
This is an example of this musical technique. (AS) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4&feature=related
What is silence?
200
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=w1bAfFnhIT8#t=143s This instrument is found in which family? (JM)
What is woodwind?
300
The most common time signature in Western music.
What is 4/4?
300
Another way of saying pleasant sounding harmony. (JW)
What is consonant?
300
Another way of saying pitches as they occur over time.
What is Melody?
300
This term means hearing something while processing it with your brain. (JW)
What is listening?
300
This instrument can be placed into multiple families.
What is the piano?
400
The note is often not used due to the fact it doesn't fit into a normal measure.
What is a breve?
400
The written definition for timbre. (TH)
What is the color of music?
400
This type of texture is defined as having one melody with one harmony.
What is homophonic?
400
This name also characterizes the material these instruments use to produce a tone.
What is the woodwind family?
400
A component of any oscillation whose frequency is an integral multiple of the fundamental frequency. (A note that exists inside of another note) (TH)
What is an overtone?
500
The fastest note in notation.
What is a 128th note?
500
This family of instruments can be placed into two categories, only one of which can fit into a category of texture. (LG)
What is percussion?
500
This texture, characterized by multiple harmonies occuring at the same time, is exceedingly rare. (LG) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQKJ0ACJuCY
What is heterophonic?
500
Another term for pitches occuring at the same time.
What is harmony?
500
The word for something not pleasant to hear; used to grasp the attention of someone listening to a piece of music. (JW) Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6LyYdSQQAQ
What is dissonance?