Music 11

a sucession of pitches percieved by mind of musical entity

frequency; # of cycles per second

Musical stopping point; end of phrase

• (background to melody) how chords are constructed & how they follow each other.
•                    consonace- stability
•                    dissonance - instability

space between 2 notes

3 or more notes played together

broken chord; sounding of individual chord

series of chord

orderede flow of music through time; pattern of durations of notes & silences in music 

pulse

• org. of beats into regular groups
•   barlines
•   duple meter
•   triple meter
•   downbeats
•   syncopation 

pace of music or speed of the beat

symbols that indicate the duration of silence in the music

colume or amplitude; degree of loudness & softness in music

gradually getting louder : <

gradually getting softer

pp

p

mp

mf

f

ff

density of the usic in terms of voices or melodies

one melody w/o harmonic accompaniment

1 melody and harmony

2 or more melodic lines or relatively; interest @ the same time

system of writing down music so that specific pitches & rythms can be communicated

a family of notes; a central note; scale and chord within a piece, in relationship to watch all other tones in compenstaion are heard

• system of keys 
•   1. tonic or keynote
•   2. key signature, modulation
•   3. scales (major &minor,chromatic)

system of modes

accents in music

smooth; connected manner of performing a melody

short detached manner of performing a melody

order of instruments play and combined

the arrangment of instruments in music

overall structure of music; org. of musical ideas in time 

• repition, contrast, variation
• ternary form 3 parts
• binary form 2 parts 

melody

song form

soprano, mezzo soprano, alto ,contrato

counter tenor, tenor, baritone, bass

distance between up and down note an instrument can produce

part of total range of an instrument or voice

may change w/ register in which played or sung; quality of sound that distinguishes 1 instument or voice from another

• sounds produced by vibrating a tight cable
• the longer the string lower pitch vice versa 

• tradiotionally made of wood 
•  longer lube, lower pitch (vice versa) 

vibrations come from musicians lips as he or she blow into a cup or funnel shaped mouthpiece

generally by striking shaking or rubbing the instrument

permits performer to play several tones at the same time easily and rapidly