Melodic Design
the name given to short musical ideas which serve, through repetition and development, as the basis for a phrase, section or entire musical work?
What is a motive?
A progression that rests on dominant harmony.
What is a half cadence?
In four-part format, the voice that functions somewhat independently from the upper three voices, which are treated as a unit in many respects
What is the bass?
A melodic pitch that is not heard as a part of the prevailing harmony at a given moment
What is a non-chord tone or a melodic dissonance?
Parralel or Direct 5ths and octaves
What is problematic?
A single primary melody with simple chordal accompaniment
What is Monody
The tone adjusted to effectively allow for harmonic tendencys in major and minor keys.
The Raised Leading tone, the seventh
Two or more voices with unique rhythms and motion in one song.
What is counterpoint
What is a 2-3 suspension?
Motion that moves from one note to the same note.
What is Oblique?
The General Direction of a Melody.
Movement at a resting point from IV-I (typically found in Hymns)
What is a plagal cadence?
The space is allowable between adjacent voices within the upper three voices (Soprano, Alto, and Tenor)
What is an octave?
the voice a suspension is typically measured against
What is the bass?
The motion in which harmonic dissonance should be resolved
What is down by step?
A composition in which all voices are heard as equal and independent without a single clear primary melody
What is contrapuntal?
The term used to describe the number of and relationship between given melodic voices.
What is Texture?
a scoring in which the upper three voices are as close as possible.
What is closed voicing?
How theorist define a note that falls outside of the given melody.
What is preparation and resolution?
Two voices moving in the same direction, but different intervals.
What is similar motion?
The member of a 7th chord that can be dropped when scoring in 4 voices.
What is the 5th?
A T-(DP)-T progression.
What is functional harmony?
an acceptable "safe" range for the four voice parts is about this distance from each voice's low extreme
What is an 8ve and a 5th?
The most common suspension form
What is a 4-3 suspension?
A diminished chord written in root position.
What is a mistake?