Music Appreciation Final Exam Study Guide – Flashcards
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Tempo
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Basic pace of the music
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Scale
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Series of pitches arranged in order from low to high or high to low
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Pitch
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Relative highness or lowness of a sound
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Beat
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Regular, recurrent pulsatuon that divides music into equal units of time
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Harmony
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How chords are constructed and how they follow each other
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Tone
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Sound that has a definite pitch, or frequency
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Dynamic
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Degrees of loudness or softness in music
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Major Scale
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Series of seven different tones within an octave, with an eighth tone repeating the first tone an octave higher, consisting of a specific pattern of whole and half steps; the whole step between the second and thirs tones is characteristic
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Register
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Part of total range of an instrument or voice
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Syncopation
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Accenting of a note at an unexpected time, as between two beats or on a week beat
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Rest
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In notation of rhythm, a symbol to indicate the duration of silence in the music
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Timbre
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Quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument or voice from another
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Key(tonality)
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Central note, scale, and chord within a piece, in relationship to which all other tones in the composition are heard
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Melody
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Series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole
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Note
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In notation, a black or white oval to which a stem and flags can be added
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Clef
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Symbol placed at the beginning of the staff to show the exact pitch of notes planned on each line and space
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Music
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Organized sound in time
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Texture
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The way something feels or the layering of sound
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Duration
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How long or short
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Rhythm
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Organized patterns of sound in time
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Genre
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The type of composition
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Composer
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A person who writes music
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Staff
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5 lines and 4 spaces that you draw muisc on
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Instrumentation
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The arrangingg of music for instruments, esp. for an orchestra or list of instruments for which a composition is scored
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Monophonic
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One sound or in unison
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Homophonic
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One line with accompaniment
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Polyphonic
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Many voice or several lines competing, we cannot tell which line is more important
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Meter
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The organization of beats into patterns
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Sacred
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Religious
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Secular
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Nonreligious
