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| pattern in time created by the incidence and duration of individual sounds |
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| The alternation of LONG and short notes, named after the notation ( ) used to record them |
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| The organization of strong and weak beats into a regular, recurring pattern. |
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| The regular grouping of beats into twos (STRONG-weak). The most common duple meters have two or four beats per measure. |
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| A military style (or piece) characterized by strongly accented duple meter and clear sectional structures. The most famous exponent was John Philip Sousa (Stars and Stripes Forever). |
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| The accenting, within a well-defined meter, of weaker beats or portions of beats. Essential to ragtime. |
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| A type of popular American music, usually for piano, that arose around 1900 and contributed to the emergence of jazz. The left hand plays a regular march-like rhythm, while the right hand is heavily syncopated. We heard Adeline Shepherd’s rag, Pickles and Peppers. |
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| The theatrical presentation of group or solo dancing of great precision to a musical accompaniment, usually with costumes and scenery and conveying a story or theme. |
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| The regular grouping of beats into threes, as in a waltz. |
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| A popular nineteenth-century dance in moderate to fast triple meter. It scandalized Europe because it was the first social dance in which people faced and held each other. |
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| These included the grizzly bear and the squirrel. How many more can you come up with? |
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| a duple-meter dance of probable Argentinian origin that arose during the early twentieth century. Its machismo overtones were expressed by a still upper torso and powerful, definitive steps. |
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| A popular Latin-American dance in duple meter characterized by Afro-Cuban rhythms expressed in subtle, swaying movements and intricate footwork. |
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| A polyphonic composition that makes systematic use of imitation, usually based on a single subject, and that opens with a series of exposed entries on that subject |
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| A cool, complex style of jazz that developed in the mid-1940s, closely associated with Charlie ("Bird") Parker. |
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| Acronym for "musical instrument digital interface," the industry-wide standard adopted in 1982 that permits personal computers and synthesizers to talk to one another. |
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| (1) The aspect of music having to do with the succession of single notes in a coherent arrangement; (2) a particular succession of such notes (also referred to as tune, theme, or voice). |
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| (1) In general, the simultaneous aspects of music; (2) specifically, the simultaneous playing of two or more different sounds, i.e. the opposite of melody. |
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| An array of fixed, ordered pitches bounded by two notes an octave apart. The common Western scales contain seven notes; in non-western cultures scales may contain fewer or more than seven notes. |
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| The acoustical distance between two pitches, usually reckoned by the number of intervening scale degrees. |
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