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Music Apritiation Final
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Music
Undergraduate 2
12/12/2009

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Melody
Definition
a single line of notes heard in succession as a coherent unit melody has a shape moving up and down in way that capture and hold our attention (like a story)not all music has it
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Rhythm
Definition
the ordering of music through time, not all music has melody but it does have rhythm. it can be repetative underlying pulse, or beat rapidly changing patterns of longer and shorter sounds
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Harmony
Definition
the sound created by multiple voices singing or playing together
Enriches Melody to by creating fuller sound
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Texture
Definition
the number and general relationship of musical lines or voices to one another
sometimes many voices other times a single voice
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Conjuct
Definition
melodic motion of pitches by step
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Disjunct
Definition
melodic motion of pictes by leap
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Major
Definition
Brigth or Happy
a type of scale prodeced by do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do or by playing the white kyes of the piano between C and C
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Minor
Definition
Sounds dark and or sad
type of scale Between A and A on the piano
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Interval
Definition
the distance between each note within a scale
usually whole steps
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Scale
Definition
a series of notes that provide the the essential pitch building blocks of Melody
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Timbre
Definition
a character of quality of sound: the same melody will sound very different when played by a different instrument
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Pitch
Definition
determined by the lengths of its sound waves (a position of sound from very low to very high
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Syncopation
Definition
accents between beats
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Cadence
Definition
acts like a period or puncutation in song
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Downbeat
Definition
the first beat It frequently carries the strongest accent of the rhythmic cycle
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Hemiola
Definition
makes you want to dance, melody (repeating) and contradict rhythm melodic and rhythm create a cross rhythm 2 note pulse
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measure
Definition
A rhythmic unit indicated by bar lines in writted music Presents one complete statement of meter
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Key
Definition
The central note and mode on which a melody or piece is based
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Modal
Definition
is jazz that uses musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework.
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Chromatic
Definition
Meldoy or Harmon the has many more notes thatn occur natuarally in a scale or key on which a word is based
playing all black keys
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Frequency
Definition
the number of soundwavelengths in a period of time
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Dynamics
Definition
The volume of sound determined by by the size (amplitude of each wave)
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Hocket
Definition
interlocking melody, 2 or more voices share a melody, Gamalon, Pigme music, cotickolin layer is when this basic melody gets elaborated
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Consonance/Dissonance (overtones)
Definition
Dis- clash (harmony or melody)
Cons-ear finds note naturally right
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symphonic poem
Definition
Single movement orchestral pieces of program music are often
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Triad
Definition
A triad is a group of three notes having a specific construction and relationship to one another. They are constructed on 3 consecutive lines or three consecutive spaces.
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Microtone
Definition
All intervals which lie between the semi-tones of the 12-note, equal-tempered tuning system
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Guaguanco
Definition
cuba-rumba Cuban dance and rhythm polyrhythm and lots of syncopation
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sprechstimme
Definition
A vocal style in which the melody is spoken at approximate pitches rather than sung on exact pitches.... Shoenburg
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atonality
Definition
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Lied
Definition
art song, romantic era (19th century), beginning of popular music business, Shcewberg
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Aria
Definition
emotional sounding song in opera, more melodic and mellosmatic
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Recitative
Definition
one of two types of song in opera- often speech like and syllabic, simple melodies
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idée fixe
Definition
Verlious, theme for his beloved in symphony, famous melody
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light motive leitmotif
Definition
Vougner used for multiple character, melodic themes to represent characters
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Ostinato-
Definition
simple repeating base, repeating melody
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colotomic structure
Definition
rhythmic structure of the music the first(gong) layer a lot like meter but involves rhythmic layers, what is making accents is important, combine rhythm and timbre(series of beats rhythms, and gongs)
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Pierrot Lunaire
Definition
Shoenberg performance atonal
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colotomic structure
Definition
rhythmic structure of the music the first(gong) layer a lot like meter but involves rhythmic layers, what is making accents is important, combine rhythm and timbre(series of beats rhythms, and gongs)
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Program Symphony
Definition
type of program music, multiple movement, intend to associate the music with someone of something
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Gamelan
Definition
is a musical ensemble from Indonesia
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