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Theory
Instruments & Voices
Rhythm, Beat, Meter
Melody & Harmony
Textures and Forms
100
the sharps or flats at the beginning of musical notation
What are key signatures.
100
Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass
What are the four most common voice parts?
100
the basic pulse in music
What is "beat?"
100
phrases, commas, and periods
What elements in writing are similar to musical melodies?
100
homophony, heterophony, monophony, and polyphony
What are four textures found in music?
200
The first note and first triad of a scale are called this.
What is tonic?
200
Stringed Instruments
What are chordophones?
200
Organizes beats into measures
What is meter?
200
tonality, where the tonic is the strongest tone or chord in a key
What is the unifying harmonic factor in Western music?
200
imitation
What devices are found in some polyphony and in rounds and canons?
300
the fourth note of a scale and its chord are called this
What is sub-dominant?
300
by the vibration of a column of air, sometimes with vibrating reeds, all through a pipe with holes.
How do woodwinds create sound?
300
has no perceivable beat
What is non-metric music?
300
pentatonic, tri-tonic, and microtones
What are the scales found in world music that are often different from what we find in Western music?
300
one musical line set against another
What is counterpoint?
400
the fifth note of a scale and its chord is called this
What is dominant?
400
Its sounds are produced by hitting an instrument that does not have a "membrane" or head
What is an idiophone?
400
divides each beat into three pulses rather than two
What is compound meter?
400
3 notes with two of the notes a third apart from each other in root position
What is a triad?
400
grave, largo, adagio, andante, moderato, allegro, vivace, presto
What are tempo terms from slowest to fastest?
500
the note sounds either a fifth up or a fourth dowe (depending on the instrument)
What is an "F" transposing instrument?
500
in brass instruments, this shape produces a mellower sound
What is a "conical bore" instrument?
500
upbeats, off beats, syncopations, and polyrhythms
What elements characterize rhythmic complexity?
500
independent melody lines of polyphony
What texture creates a harmony without harmony being the goal?
500
strophic form, call and response, variation, improvisation, two (AB) and three part forms (ABA)
What forms use repetition and variation?