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| fractional vibrations that give different qualities to tone colors |
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time aspect of music
the arragement of durations - long n short notes - in a particular melody or some other musical passage. |
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| basic unit of measurement of time |
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| recurring pattern of strong and weak beats |
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| each occurence of a meter (repeated pattern of one principal strong beat and one or more weaker beats) |
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| Simple meter vs Compound meter |
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Single: double and triple
Compound: involves subdivision of one of the simple meters |
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| displacment of an accent so its not on the first beat |
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| adagio andante moderato allegretto allegro presto |
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| slow, medium slow, moderate, medium fast, fast, very fast |
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| pitches assembled in a collectioin in order |
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| difference/distance between two pitches |
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| the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency |
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Diatonic scale
Chromatic scale |
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white keys
white + black keys |
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smallest interval, distance between two successive notes on chromatic scale
two half steps |
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| organized series of pitches |
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| duplication of a phrase at two or more different pitch levels |
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| a distinctive fragment of melody, distinctive enough so that it will be easily recognized when it returns again and again within a long composition |
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| pitches being played simultaneously in a group and work well in combination |
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| changing chords provide a sort of constantly shifting sound-background for the song |
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| chords that sound at rest vs chords that sound tense |
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| a consonance chord following a dissonance chord bringing the music to a point of stability |
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| blend of various sounds and melodic lines occurring simultaneously in music |
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| 1 single unaccompanied melody |
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| subtly different versions of a single melody being played at the same time |
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| only one melody of real interest, combined with other sounds e.g. singing while playing guitar |
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| multiple melodies being presented simultaneously and are of equal interest |
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| technique of writing two or more melodies that fit together |
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various lines sounding together use the same or fairly similar melodies with one coming shortly after another.
same tune at staggered time intervals |
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| the melodies are essentially different from one another |
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| homing instinct thats sensed in melodies. tonic pitchis the one we always come back to, almost always the last note. |
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major and minor
term for the differentw ays of centering or organizing the diatonic scale |
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| different positions for modes |
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shape, arrangement, relationship, or organization of various elements
e.g. sonata form |
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| type of emotional expression a composer cultivates - combination of qualities that make a piece distinctive |
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