Music Midterm

  1. What is Pitch?
    Highness or lowness
  2. Tone color
    Tonality
  3. Not Sacred
    Secular
  4. regular recurring pattern (2 or 3)
    meter
  5. Fast
    Allegro
  6. Three part form (a,b,a)
    Ternary
  7. without instrument
    A Capella
  8. Composer of mass with 4 independent lines
    Machaut
  9. "Home plate"
    Tonic
  10. one horizontal line
    monophonic
  11. descriptive text to music
    word painting
  12. Famous woman of early music era

    Name:____ and Era:____
    Hildegard of Bingen

    Middle Ages
  13. Counter Tenor
    Used in Fair Phillis, 4 singers
  14. How long
    Duration
  15. volume and intensity
    Dynamics
  16. Tone Color
    Timbre

    (flute, boy, piano)
  17. accenting the offbeat
    syncopation
  18. Horizontal one main line
    melody
  19. accompany, vertical, background
    harmony
  20. duration of notes and rests
    rhythm
  21. tonality
    tonic, what you want to hear
  22. How fast or slow
    Tempo
  23. Regular recurring (ie 2 for a march)
    Meter
  24. Four parts of orchestra
    • Strings
    • Woodwind
    • Brass
    • Percussion
  25. Collection from play or some larger work
    Suite
  26. Made for a movie or show (LOST music)
    Incidental Music
  27. Unit of time
    Beat
Author
winslow250
ID
8008
Card Set
Music Midterm
Description
prep for Clasical music midterm
Updated