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| vibrations transmitted to our ears by a medium that is usually air |
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| distance" between any two tones |
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| degree of loudness or softness in music |
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| melody that serves as the starting point for an extended piece of music |
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| regular recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time |
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| an emphasized tone that is played more loudly than the other tones around it |
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| melody moves by small intervals |
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| smooth connected style-everything rolls together |
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| a repetition of a melodic pattern at a higher or lower pitch (string of similar events) |
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| refers to the way chords are constructed and how they follow each other |
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| tone combination is unstable (nasty sounding) |
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| a resting place at the end of a phrase |
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| one or more line of equal importance; having many sounds |
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| one main melody accompanied by chords |
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| striking differences of pitch, dynamics, rhythm, and tempo that provide variety and change mood |
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| refers to a characteristic way of using melody, rhythm, tone color, dynamics, harmony, texture, and form |
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| the relative highness or lowness in a sound |
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| Tones separated by the interval; ○ It is the interval between the first and the last tones of the familiar scale |
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| changing some features of a musical idea while retaining others |
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| organization of beats into regular groups |
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| when an "off-beat" note is accented, stress between two beats |
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| melody moves by large intervals |
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| a combination of three or more tones sounded at once |
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| dissonance moves towards consonance |
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| technique of combining two or more melodic lines into a meaningful whole |
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| in music is the organization of musical elements in time |
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| A B A; form that can be represented as statement A contrast B return of statement A |
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| a sound that has a definite pitch |
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| distance between the highest and lowest tones that a given voice or instrument can produce |
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| described by words such as bright, dark, brilliant, mellow, and rich |
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| flow of music through time, more specifically it can be defined as the particular arrangement of note lengths in a piece of music (noise over time) |
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| a group containing a fixed number of beats |
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| shorter parts of a melody that have similar pitch and rhythm |
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| a tone combination that is stable (pleasant sounding) |
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| simplest most basic chord, 3 notes |
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| performance of a single melodic line by more than one instrument or voice at the same pitch or in different octaves |
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| presentation of a melodic idea by one voice or instrument that is immediately followed by it's restatement by another voice or instrument, as in a round |
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| reiteration of a motive, phrase, or section, often used to create a sense of unity |
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| A B; a form that can be represented as a statement A and a counterstatement B |
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