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| The simultaneous composition and performance of music |
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| The highness or lowness of a sound |
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| The modern term for scholars who study music of other cultures, or who study multiple cultures comparatively |
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-Have one or more strings
-Are plucked, strung, or bowed
-Vibrating string creates sound
Examples: violin, harp, guitar |
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-Brass and wind instruments
-Vibrating column of air
-Horns and flutes |
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-Have skin or other membrane stretched across some kind of frame
-Membrane vibrates when struck |
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-Body of instrument vibrates when struck
-Examples: bells, woodblocks, xylophones |
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-Create sound waves using a mechanical device (oscillator)
-Depend on electricity |
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| affects the pitch of a sound |
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| played by bowing or plucking |
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| Affects the decibel(db) level |
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-Aerophones made of metal
-Sounded by performers' "buzzing lips"
-Make column of air vibrate |
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-Aerophones
-Column of air is moved by "breath alone"
-One or two vibrating reeds
-Examples: flutes and recorders |
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| -Membronophones, Idiophones, and some chordophones (piano) |
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-Fifth category
-Examples: Piano, harpsichord, organ, celesta |
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| Played by regulating amplitude with one hand and frequency with the other |
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| Electronically generated sounds and sounds produced by live instruments recorded on tape then manipulated and edited. Then played on loud speaker. |
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| the musical term for a distance between an alpha letter and the next-higher or next-lower alpha letter |
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| Includes both the treble and bass staffs |
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| Loudest and strongest sound produced by a specific length of string |
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| faint higher or lower pitches which "color" a fundamental |
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| Mathematical ratios are adjusted so an octave is divided into 12 equal parts |
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| 12 different pitches in ascending order |
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| arrangement, in ascending order , of the seven basic pitches. A succession of whole and half steps |
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| The anchor or a point of repose and completion in a scale |
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| the distance between any 2 pitches |
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| distance between any 2 consecutive keys on a keyboard |
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| two pitches occur simultaneously |
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| two pitches occur in succession |
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| Same sequence of melodic intervals starting on any of the 12 different pitches = 12 different scales. WWHWWWH |
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same sequence of intervals starting on any of the 12 different pitches.WHWWHWW
3 variants:
natural
harmonic
melodic
All minor scales have a lowered third degree |
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