Vocal Ranges
A soprano voice that is light and flexible enough to perform rapid scales and trills.
What is a Coloratura?
Singing a melody without accompaniment or harmony.
What is monophonic?
A genre of African American Music that often expresses frustration, sadness, or longing.
What is Blues?
An aspect of music that controls the listener's sense of how much time has passed.
What is "felt" time?
A sequence of eight pitches that have a minor third, sixth, and seventh.
What is a minor scale?
A lower male register with a rich, robust, resonant, and full quality.
What is a bass?
Identify the music texture.
What is Polyphonic?
The distance between the lowest and highest pitches of the voice.
What is Range?
A musician who reworks existing musical material.
What is an arranger?
Vertical blocks of different tones that play at the same time.
What is harmony?
A high male range with a powerful, ringing quality.
What is a tenor?
The texture where accompanying harmony supports the melody.
What is homophonic?
A term used to designate singing without instrumental accompaniment.
What is A Capella?
The four elements of music that a composer has to consider when creating a piece of music.
What are Melody, Timbre, Rhythm, and Form?
The free treatment of tempo within a musical phrase.
What is rubato?
A lower female register with a full, rich, dark, and powerful quality.
What is Contralto?
Identify the Texture
What is homophonic?
The high, middle, or low section of the vocal or instrumental range
What is a register?
Arrangements of music transferred from one medium to another.
What is Transcription?
An extended work for orchestra with several contrasting movements.
What is Symphony?
The highest male voice with a falsetto range, quality, and register in the female alto range.
What is a countertenor?
The music texture that has several independent melodies. (Hint: Think a round or canon)
What is polyphonic texture?
The capacity to think sound.
What is audiation?
A musical form in which a melodic idea is stated then varied in a succession of statements.
What is Theme and Variations?
Harmonies built on the first (Do), fourth (Fa), and fifth (Sol) degrees of the scale.
What are the primary chords?