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| Rational organization of sounds and silences passing through time. |
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| The music of all the people. |
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| Music that has endured the test of time. |
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| Instruments whose sounds are not electronically altered. |
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| genre, or type of music for orchestra, divided into several independent pieces called movements |
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| Independent piece in a symphony. |
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| A large ensemble of acoustic instruments such as violins, trumpets and flutes. |
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| Orchestra is given this name because it has typically played more symphonies than anything else. |
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| a short distinctive musical figure hat can stand by itself. |
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| tone poem (symphonic poem) |
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| A one movement work for orchestra that tries to capture in the music the emotions and events associated with a story. |
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| Organization of time in music, it divides time into long and short spans. |
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| even pulse that divide the passing of time into equal units |
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| The gathering of beats into regular grouops. |
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| two beats per measure. ONE two, ONE two,... |
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| Meter signature (time signature) |
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| How meter in music is indicated. Two numbers one on top of the other. |
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| comes right before the downbeat |
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| only a note or two that gives a little momentum into the first downbeat. |
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| musical emphasis, that falls on the beat. |
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| places accent either on a weak beat or between the beats. |
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| The speed at which the beats progress. |
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| a slowing down of the music |
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| relative position, high or low of a musical sound. |
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| gridwork of lines and spaces |
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| combination of both bass and treble clefs. |
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| raises a half step or one key |
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| lowers a half step or one key |
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| cancels either sharp or flat |
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| a fixed patter of tones within the octave that ascends and descends. |
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| distance between two pitches in music |
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| follows a seven note pattern moving 1-1-1/2-1-1-1-1/2 |
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| seven note patter moving 1-1/2-1-1-1/2-1-1. |
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| Sharps and flats placed immediately before each note of the scale. |
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| first of the 7 notes on a scale. |
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| organization of music around a central pitch |
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| change from one key to another. Called a change of mode. |
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| uses all 12 pitches, equally divided. |
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| important part of a larger whole. They open and close melodies. |
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| group of 3 or more pitches that sound at the same time |
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| built on the fifth note of a scale |
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| built on the fourth notse of the scale, pitch is just below the dominant. |
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| movement of chords in purposeful fashion. |
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| broken or staggered chord |
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| pitches sounding momentarily disagreeable and unstable |
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| pitches sounding agreeable and stable. |
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| portion of a musical phrase that leads to its last chord |
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| any element of music that continually repeats. |
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| expressive soulful style of singing that unfolds above repreating chord changes. |
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| various levels of volume, loud and soft. |
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| a sudden loud attack on one note or chord. |
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| gradual increase in the intensity or sound. |
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| gradual decrease in the intensity or sound. |
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| tone quality of any sound produced by a voice or instrument |
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| anotherterm for the tone quality of musical sound. |
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| many voices together, soprano, alto, tenor, bass |
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| chief among string instruments. Also the smallest and shortest strings |
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| Six inches longer thant the violin and produces a lower sound. Darker, richer and more somber tone. |
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| pitch is below the viola and the player sits with it between his legs. |
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| Named because it doubled the notes of the cello an octave below. It is the lowest sounding of the string instruments. |
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| musical tremor created by rapid repreating the same pitch with quick up and down strokes of the bow. |
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| performer rapidly alternates between two distinctly separate but neighboring pitches. |
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| a metal rubber clamp placed on teh strings on the instrument. |
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| rapid run up and down the strings. |
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| Flute piccolo clarinet oboe english horn, bassoon |
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| what brass players blow through |
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| trumpet, trombone, French horn, tuba |
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| composite notation of all the instrumental parts for a particular piece. |
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| density and arrangement of artistic elements |
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| single line of music with no harmony. |
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| "same sounding" the voices or lines all move together to new pitches at roughly the same time. |
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| "many sounding" two or more lines in the musical fabric. Each of the lines will be autonoumos and indepenent. |
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| the followers copy exactly note for note what the leader plays. |
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| arrangment of musical events. |
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| presentation of an important musical idea. |
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| validates a statement by repeating it. |
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| takes us away from the familiar and into the unknown. |
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| lies between repition and contrast. The original melody returns but is altered in some way. |
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| composer set the words of the first poetic stanza and then uses the same entire melody for all subsequent stanzas. |
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| textual refrain that repeats. |
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| the music of the first strophe or stanza is alter in some way each time it returns. |
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| two contrasting units, that balance and complement each other |
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| three sectsions ABA it is rounded and complete. |
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| a refrain alternates with contrasting music. There are usually two contrasting sections. |
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