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1. singing
2. performing on istruments
3. improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments
4. composing and arranging music
5. reading and notating music
6. listening to, analyzing and describing music
7. evaluating music and music performances
8. understanding realtionships between music
9. understanding music in relation to history and culture |
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| the basic pulse of music, heartbeat |
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| the unique quality of sound of a voice or instrument |
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| pitch and rhythm combined |
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| hwo music is organized mathematically |
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| two or more pitches sounding together |
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| the musical background for a principal part or parts |
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| a osng style that follows a simple question and answer pattern in which a soloist calls out the melody and a group responds |
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| a sign at the beginning of a staff to indicate the position of some particular pitch, and by extension, the pitches represented by all of the staff's llines and spaces |
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| the activity of creating a musical work |
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| a person who writes musical works |
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| person who leads a musical group |
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| the volume of sound, the loudness or softness of a musical passage |
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| pitch, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, timbre, texture, form in music |
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| group of performers who perform together, whether instrumentalists, singers, or some combination, degree to which a group of perfomers performs with approprate balance and well coordinated articulation |
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| the overall structural organization of a music composition (e.g. AB, ABA, call and response, verse and refrain, rondo, theme and variations, sonata-allegro) and the interrelationships of music events within the overall structure |
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| the sounding together of two or more tones |
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| compose music while performing it; commonly assoicated with jazz |
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| the words that are sung in a song |
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| in the most general sense, a coherent succession of pitches, refers to successive rather than simultaneous sounds |
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| grouping in which a succession of rhythmic pulses or beats is organized, indicated by a meter signature at the beginning of a work |
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| any means of writng down music |
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| the highness or lowness of sound |
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| an element of music, organization of sound (notes lengths) and silence in time |
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| composition for two or more voices in which one voice enters after another in exact imitation of the first, a round is the simplest type of canon |
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| group of equidistant horizontal lined, now always five, on which notes are placed in such a way as to indicate pitch |
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adagio-slow temp, often said to be slower than andante but not as slow as largo
allegro-fast, lively
largo-very slow
andante-walking tempo
moderato- moderately fast |
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| the character of the different layers of sound in music |
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| character or quality of a sound that distinguishes one instrument, voice, or other sound source form another |
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