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Music in Culture
Exam 1
Question | Answer |
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Indian musical fragment | Raga |
Very slow | Adagio |
Quintessential Baroque composer; died in 1750 | J.S Bach |
Presence of specific home note (tonic) | Key |
Quite fast and lively | Vivace |
Two or more melodies with or without accompaniment | Polyphony |
Symbol of musical duration | Note |
Strong or loud | Forte |
Harsh sounding | Dissonance |
How one uses musical elements | style |
Very fast | presto |
Single musical line | monophony |
most used scale in Western music | major |
getting louder | crescendo |
speed of the beat | tempo |
five lines for writing music | staff |
Indian bamboo flute | venu |
"home note" | tonic |
sad sounding scale | minor scale |
Struck instruments | percussion |
one accompanied melody | homophony |
regular pattern of strong and weak beats | meter |
using all the "colors" notes | chromatic |
musical pulse | beat |
two or more notes together | harmony |
relationship of musical layers | texture |
type of melody or soprano | lyric |