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| An organized series of pitches |
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| A simple, easily singable, catchy melody is a _______. It is a special kind of _________. |
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1. Division into phrases - Tunes fall into smaller sections called phrases.
2. Balance b/t phrases - For a good tune, the main requirement is that we sense a balance b/t the phrases, in terms of phrase lengths so that taken together the phrases add up to a well proportioned whole.
3. Parallelism and Contrast - Use of similar pitches, rhythm etc. throughout various phrases. Use of sequence - duplication of a phrase at 2 or more different pitches. Or via the use of contrasting phrases - length, pitch etc.
4. Climax and Cadence - = Form - beginning, middle, end. Climax - high point. Cadences - use of interim stopping or pausing places. |
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| Name and explain the four characteristics of a Tune... |
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| A _________ is a distinctive fragment of melody, distinctive enough that it can be easily recognized when it returns again within a long composition. They are shorter than _______ and _______. |
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Theme
Function not the nature |
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| _______ is the most general term for the basic subject matter of longer pieces of music. Refers to ________ not the ________ of musical material. Anything can serve as this such as a melody, phrase, motive or tone color. |
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| Melodies together with other sounds i.e. a folk singer singing and playing a guitar is playing a song its accompaniment. |
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| Groupings of simultaneous pitches that work well in combination. |
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| A song is said to be __________ when the changing chords provide a sort of constantly shifting sound-background for the song. |
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| the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords - has to do with vertical aspect of the chords. |
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| Chords that sound at rest |
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| _________ are the most consonant of intervals. |
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| ______ _____ are the most dissonant of chords |
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| Consonance and dissonance depend on ________ that are sounding simultaneously to make up the chords. |
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Resolved
Expectation
Cadences |
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| A dissonance is said to be ___________ when it is followed by consonance. This provides ________ within the music. ________ are useful in creating dissonance. |
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| ________ is the term used to refer to the blend of various sounds and melodic lines occurring simultaneously in music. |
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| When plotting the pitch/time graph we see that ________ exists horizontally and ________ vertically. |
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| _________ is the term for the simplest texture. |
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| ________ is a texture in which subtly different versions of a single melody are presented simultaneously. |
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| When there is only one melody of real interest and it is combined with other sounds, the texture is called ___________. |
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Polyphonic
independent and of equal interest
Harmony |
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| When two or more melodies are played or sung simultaneously. The melodies are said to be _________ and of ________ interest. This type of music automatically has _______. |
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Monophony
Heterophony
Homophony
Polyphony |
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| Name the four types of textures. |
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| Contrapuntal aka Counterpoint |
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| A word often used for polyphnic texture is ___________. Which is the technique of writing two or more ___________ that fit together. |
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Imitative polyphony
Row row row your boat |
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| ____________ ___________ results when the various lines sounding together use the same or fairly similar melodies, with one coming shortly after another. Example? |
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Non-imitative polyphony
Jazz music |
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_____________ ___________ occurs when the melodies are essentially different from one another, yet played at the same time.
Example? |
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| Two aspects of Harmony are? |
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| _______ is the homing instinct that we sense in melodies. The music in question is described as _______. The home pitch is called the ______ pitch or simply _______. |
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| The term for different ways of centering the diatonic scale is _________. The different tonic pitches are said to determine the different ________ of music. |
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| Music with the do or C as the tonic is in the _______ mode, music with the la or A as the tonic is in the ________ mode. |
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| Half-Step is also known as ________. |
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| Thanks to the _________ scale with its 12 notes, you can construct both the major and minor modes starting at any note at all. Therefore these modes can be constructed on any pitch; these different positions for the modes are called _______. |
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| There is a total of ___ major and minor keys. |
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Modulations
12 Days of Christmas "5 GOLDEN RINGS" |
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| Changes of the tonic note are called _____________. I.e. ? |
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Rhythm, pitch, melody
Dynamics, tone color and texture |
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| 6 Elements of form in music |
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| _____ referes to the organization of elements in a musical work, but _________ referes to one of many standardized formal patterns that composers have used for centuries. |
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| Music is better defined by its ______ rather than its _____. In this way, music may be defined by its text, function, or by the performing forces. |
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| Melodious - typical of the bassoon. |
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| A composition written symmetrically in imitative polyphony usually with a single main theme. |
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