Early Music
Used to tell stories and communicate.
What is early music?
How loud or soft sound is.
What are dynamics?
Soft
What is piano?
The violin
What is the instrument that Death plays?
The overall relationship between melody and harmony that create a unique sound set when combined.
What is tonality?
Sound and silence composed to express feelings or tell a story.
What is music?
The order and arrangement of the different parts of a piece of music.
What is form?
fortissimo
What is very loud?
Pizzicato
What are plucked strings?
The relationship between the layers of sound/lines/voices, can be described as thin, medium, or thick in this element, depending on the number of layers
What is texture?
Word of mouth
What is oral tradition?
What is a melody?
forte
what is loud?
Short and detached
What is staccato?
A repeated musical pattern
What is an ostinato?
This was not written down or recorded until 600AD.
What is early music?
The succession of chords, or chordal progressions made by two or more parts, or voices, playing or singing together is known as
What is harmony?
What is medium soft?
Composer of Dance Macabre
Who is Camille Saint-Saens?
The speed or pace of the music
What is tempo?
When music was passed down by word of mouth, it was passed down this way
What is generation to generation?
The arrangement of notes of differing lengths, often grouped and placed in time in relation to a pulse or steady beat.
What is rhythm?
Crescendo
what is gradually getting louder?
Uses music to tell a story instead of words
What is a tone poem or symphonic poem?
The shape of a melody
What is contour?