Elements
An amount of time or particular time interval.
What is duration?
a musical texture with a single part or vocal melody.
What is monophone?
A single line of unaccompanied vocal music used in Christian liturgies since the earliest centuries of Christianity.
What is plainchant/plainsong?
The distance in pitch between two notes.
What is an interval?
This is determined by the amplitude of a sound wave.
What is volume?
An art form based on the organization of sounds in time that includes the elements of pitch, dynamics, timbre, and duration.
What is music?
A musical texture with multiple parts that move independently with multiple melodic lines.
What is polyphony?
A song written for the purpose of adoration, devotion, or praise, typically sung by a congregation.
What is a hymn?
A system for singing notes including the syllables do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, and do.
What is solfège?
Created by a vibrating object, sound is a form of energy that travels through matter in waves and can be heard.
What is sound?
the relative highness or lowness of sound.
The number of musical textures that we have studied.
A form of early polyphony based on existing plainsong.
What is organum?
The distance between two tones that sound alike whose higher tone has a frequency twice that of its lower tone.
What is an octave?
This is determined by the frequency of a sound wave.
What is pitch?
The tone or unique quality of a sound.
What is timbre?
What is homophony?
DAILY DOUBLE: What is the specific form of plainchant that was primarily sung in the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages?
What is Gregorian chant?
A series of musical tones in fixed steps going up or down in pitch often within an octave.
What is a scale?
Audio Clue: The following is an example of what musical texture?
What is homophony?
The degree of loudness or softness in music.
What are dynamics?
Audio Clue: The following musical excerpt is an example of this musical texture.
What is polyphony?
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
This type of scale has five notes and is often used in international folk music, jazz and blues.
Audio Clue: What is the name of the following piece of music?
What is Rhapsody in Blue?