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| Begins with vibration of an object. |
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| Four things you need to identify: |
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| Pitch, Dynamics, Texture, and Meter. |
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| A sound that has a definite pitch. |
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| The distance between pitch of two notes. |
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| Distance between lowest and highest notes |
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| Degrees of loudness or softness in music. |
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| Emphasis on specific notes. |
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Moderately, used in the middle between soft and loud.
Ex: Mezzo piano - Moderately soft, louder than piano but softer than mezzo forte, which is also softer that forte. |
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| Used to denotate the ends of the dynamic spectrum, the softest is pianissimo, the loudest is fortissimo |
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How a specific instrument sounds.
Why a flute playing A# sounds different from a cello playing A# |
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| Music created on the spot. |
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| Plucking the string of a generally bowed instrument |
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| Playing two strings at once. |
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| Vibrating the strings to provide emotion and character in playing. |
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| Creating a background noise by bowing the strings incredibly quickly back and forth. |
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| Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time. |
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| Grouping beats into one constant unchanging pattern |
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Retarded tempo
(decreasing tempo) |
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| Series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole. |
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| Small intervals of which melodies move. |
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| Emotional focal point of a music piece. |
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| A melody sung, or played in a smooth, connected style. |
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| A melody performed in a short, choppy, and detached sounding manner. |
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| Shorter parts that make up melodies. Short units with similar pitch and rhythm patterns that help unify the melody. |
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| A repetition of a melody at a higher or lower pitch. |
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| How many layers of sound we hear at once. |
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| Hearing only one melody, without harmony or any kind of sound to keep rhythm |
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| "Many sounds", Several melodies compete in line for attention. |
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