Elements of Sound
The relative highness or lowness of sound
What is pitch?
The combination of single pitches that add up to a recognizable whole
What is melody?
Dissonance is unstable. It wants to be resolved to _____
What is Consonance?
The ________ is a regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time
What is Beat?
A series of pitches arranged in order from low to high, or high to low.
What is a scale?
The relative loudness or softness of sound
What is "Dynamics"
A melody that is played short and separated
What is Staccato?
A dominant chord is active, and wants to be resolved to this chord
What is tonic chord?
A piece of music that has four beats in a measure is in ______ meter
The first two intervals of a minor scale
Whole step, Half step
The violin is the highest pitched instrument in the _____ family
What is the string family?
The B section in a pop song is often called this term
What is a bridge?
This chord sets up a dominant chord
What is predominant or subdominant?
The speed of a beat
What is tempo?
When a piece changes keys, it is called this term
Modulation
The exact same pitch played twice
What is Unison Interval
The end of a phrase
What is a cadence?
A phrase that has a half cadence will end on this chord
What is my dominant, or V chord?
The emphasis of a note
What is an accent?
When one voice is singing at one time, it is this type of texture
What is monophonic texture or monophony?
The dynamic marking Forte means ______
What is loud?
A phrase that could end a piece would have this type of cadence
What is authentic cadence?
The chord that a piece typically starts and ends with
What is the tonic chord?
The emphasis of notes on the offbeat
What is syncopation?
Binary Form is labeled with these two letters
A B