Timbre & more
What is Timbre?
The element of sounds that allows us to be able to tell one instrument or voice different from another.
What is pitch?
How high or low something is.
What is dynamics?
The volume of a sound; how loud or soft a sound is
What is music notation?
Music notation can be defined as the system or technique used to write music.
What is form?
Form in music, describes the structure or the organization of a musical composition into sections. There are many different types of musical form.
How many groups are musical instruments divided into.
5
Sound is produced by________
vibration
What is forte?
loud
Why was music notation made?
Music notation was created as a method to help the monks to remember the different chants.
What are the 2 different types of form.
Ternary and Binary
List ALL the groups that instruments are classified into.
Aerophones
Chordophones
Electrophoes
Mebranophones
Idiophones
What is frequency measured in?
Hetz (HZ)
what is mezzo piano?
Moderately soft
The first recorded system of music notation was ......
Numes
What is ternary form? (Give an example in explanation)
Ternary form describes music that has three distinct sections.
In ternary form, the first section and the third section are the same.
Ternary form is represented as ABA
WHAT ARE 3 EXAMPLES OF IDIOPHONES?
TRIANGLE , maracas, TAMBOURINE
The tighter the string the ______ the pitch.
higher
What is Crescendo?
Gradually getting louder
a set of dashes, squiggles and dots written above the words of the hymns and chants. What is this?
Numes
What is Binary? ( give an Example in explanation )
Music that is performed with two section is said to be binary form.
We refer the the sections as A and B. Therefore binary form is represented as AB.
What are 4 examples or aerophones?
Bagpipes, flute, recorder, trumpet
The speed of the vibrations is called _______
Frequency
What is Fortissimo?
Very Loud
What introduced the use of lines in music notation?
Guido Monaco
Sing a song ( can be made up ) that gives examples of the Ternary and Binary.
( answers may vary )