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| even pulse that divides the passing of time into equal segments |
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| organization of time in music |
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| gathering of beats into regular groups |
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| two numbers, one on top of the other, placed at the beginning of music to tell the performer how the beats of the music are to be grouped |
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| first and strongest beat in the measure/second beat is accented |
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| accent placed on weak or between beats |
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| speed at which beats occur |
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| robbing, steal additional time by slowing down |
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| relative position of a musical sound |
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| pitch that sounds like a previous pitch but at a level up |
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| gridwork of lines and spaces |
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| combination of clefs to list wide range of instrument |
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| space between two clefs marked temporarily |
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| indicates range of pitch melody is to be played or sung |
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| covers lower range used for lower instruments: trombone, cello, man's voice |
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| covers upper range and is appropriate for high instruments: trumpet, violin |
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| organization of music around the central tone or tonic |
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| arrangement of pitches that ascends and descends in a fixed and unvarying pattern |
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| central pitch melodies gravitate around and end |
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| succession of whole and half steps that proceeds 1-1-1/2-1-1-1-1/2, happy sounding |
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| goes 1-1/2-1-1-1/2-1-1, sad sounding |
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| preplaced sharps or flats, show key piece is written, show scale employed |
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| written in either major or minor scale using only 7 notes of each |
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| all 12 pitches half step apart |
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| melodies moving in step/out of step |
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| [ difference between lowest and highest note covered in piece ] |
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| [ shape of notes on staff ] |
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| [ balancing notes resembling wave pattern ] |
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| dependent idea within a melody -one line of music- |
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| concluding part of a musical phrase |
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| basic chord in music consists of three pitches arranged in a specific way |
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| fifth note of scale, wants to return to tonic |
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| fourth note of scale, wants to carry forward to dominant |
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| broken traid with notes entering staggered, part of melody harmony or supports it |
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| change from one key to another |
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| pitches sounding agreeable and stable/disagreeable and unstable |
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| tone quality of musical sound |
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| highly expressive because of its range for sound |
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| higher/lower women's voices |
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| higher/lower men's voices |
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| chief string instrument, high range, most similar to human voice |
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| 6 inches longer than violin, lower sound, |
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| largest lowest sounding string instrument |
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| wobbling hand to mix pitches adding richness |
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| rapidly repeating same pitch with quick up and down strokes of the bow |
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| cut bow certain way to play two notes at one time |
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| rich in lower range, light airy on top |
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| single reed, mellower than flute |
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| double reed, first non string instrument to be added to the orchestra, everyone tunes to it because it's so hard to tune |
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| even lower than bassoon, lowest of all orchestral instruments |
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| high, bright, cutting sound |
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| first brass instrument to join the orchestra, rich, mellow sound, hunting horn |
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| middle range of brass, large and full, no vents but slide to produce sounds |
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| largest lowest sounding brass, full, muffled sounds, |
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| pitched or or unpitched instruments |
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| drum like in appearance, thunder like in sound |
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| wooden bars struck by mallets |
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