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Details Title: AA10 Midterm Key Terms Description: Key Terms for RSWinter midterm Total Flash Cards: 20 Created: 11/01/2006 21:07:50	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term rhythm Definition pattern in time created by the incidence and duration of individual sounds Term dotted rhythm Definition The alternation of LONG and short notes, named after the notation ( ) used to record them Term meter Definition The organization of strong and weak beats into a regular, recurring pattern. Term duple meter Definition The regular grouping of beats into twos (STRONG-weak). The most common duple meters have two or four beats per measure. Term march Definition 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). Term syncopation Definition The accenting, within a well-defined meter, of weaker beats or portions of beats. Essential to ragtime. Term ragtime Definition 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. Term ballet Definition 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. Term triple meter Definition The regular grouping of beats into threes, as in a waltz. Term waltz Definition 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. Term ragtime dances Definition These included the grizzly bear and the squirrel. How many more can you come up with? Term Tango Definition 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. Term salsa Definition A popular Latin-American dance in duple meter characterized by Afro-Cuban rhythms expressed in subtle, swaying movements and intricate footwork. Term fugue Definition 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 Term bebop Definition A cool, complex style of jazz that developed in the mid-1940s, closely associated with Charlie ("Bird") Parker. Term MIDI Definition Acronym for "musical instrument digital interface," the industry-wide standard adopted in 1982 that permits personal computers and synthesizers to talk to one another. Term melody Definition (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). Term harmony Definition (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. Term scale Definition 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. Term interval Definition The acoustical distance between two pitches, usually reckoned by the number of intervening scale degrees.