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| Especially in CHANT, the single note used for musical “recitation” with brief melodic formulas for beginning and ending |
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Many notes sung to one syllable
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| Some (2-4) notes per syllable |
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– is a texture where there is a sameness of rhythm in all parts – condition of homophony
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| 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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considered unstable (or temporary, transitional)
conflict in music
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sounds that are pleasant – a harmony, chord, or interval considered stable
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| Composed in poetic Meter – a background of stressed and unstressed beats in a simple, regular repeating pattern. |
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Not written in poetic meter.
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| 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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| A musical texture that involves only one melody of real interest; combined with chords or other subsidiary sounds |
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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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