The Voice
The lowest register.
Bass
A dynamic which means quiet.
This instrument family uses air to create sound.
Aerophones
An interval.
The space from note to note. Conjunct vs. disjunct.
Rhythm
The movement of music through time.
Nonsense Syllables
Non-lexical
Walking Tempo.
Andante
This string vocabulary means to slide the pitch.
Glissando
Socrates
A complete individual should have an education of the mind, the body, and the soul.
Genre
A type or category of music.
One syllable held over many notes.
Melismatic
To gradually get quieter.
Decrescendo.
An English Horn is this type of instrument.
Woodwind
ABA
Ternary Form
1600-1750
Baroque Era
The part of a song that repeats over and over. It is the catchy one.
Chorus or Refrain.
To return to the original tempo.
A Tempo
Harp comes from this instrument family.
Chordophone
Timbre
The sound quality of a pitch.
The number of times a pitch vibrates per second.
If music is for the church it would be described as this.
Sacred
Tempo and dynamics lend themselves to this aspect of music making.
Interpretation.
Struck, Shaken, or Scraped
A movement.
A part of a large work. Like a chapter in a book.
Pentatonic
A scale based on 5 notes.