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Midterm 1
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Music
Undergraduate 1
02/01/2011

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Reciting Tone 
Definition
Especially in CHANT, the single note used for musical “recitation” with brief melodic formulas for beginning and ending
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Syllabic
Definition
One note to one Syllable
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Melismatic
Definition

Many notes sung to one syllable

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Neumatic
Definition
 Some (2-4) notes per syllable
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Homorhythmic
Definition

– is a texture where there is a sameness of rhythm in all parts – condition of homophony

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Melody
Definition
The aspect of music having to do with the succession of pitches; also applied (“a melody”) to  any particular succession of pitches
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Accompaniment Virtuosic
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Dissonance

Definition

considered unstable (or temporary, transitional)

 

conflict in music

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Consonance 
Definition

sounds that are pleasant – a harmony, chord, or interval considered stable

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Metrical

Definition
Composed in poetic Meter – a background of stressed and unstressed beats in a simple, regular repeating pattern.
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A-metrical 
Definition

Not written in poetic meter.

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Drone
Definition
a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece.
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Homophonic

Definition
A musical texture that involves only one melody of real interest; combined with chords or other subsidiary sounds
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Mode (Major/Minor) 
Definition

In music since the Renaissance, one of the two types of tonality: major mode or minor mode; also, in earlier times, one of several orientations of diatonic scale with D,E,F, and G.

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