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| the organization of sound in time |
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| the highness/lowness of sound |
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| speed/pace of the piece of music |
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| loud/soft of piece of music, Ital. terms to describe the degrees of loud/soft |
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| flow of music through time, the particular arrangements of the note lengths. Metrical vs. non metrical-can you tap your tow to a beat, or is it free rhythm without a pulse |
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| a series of pitches that seem to have a unified whole, singable vs. nonsingable |
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| characteristic way of using tone color, melody, harmony, thythm, form, texture |
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| the way chords are consturcted and the way they follow each other |
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| centering of a melody around a central note or tonal center. Based on major/minor scales. If it's atonal, it is without a tonal center. To change key is to modulate. |
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| chord progression that signals the end of a section or a piece |
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