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Test 1; MA; Ch. 1-5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| is important to most Western music | Harmony |
| a musical pitch produced by steady, definite vibrations | Tone |
| is determined by the frequency of its vibrations: the faster the vibration, the higher it is | Pitch |
| the distance between 2 pitches | Interval |
| 2 singers can create monophonic music, even if an octave apart | Unison |
| a musical one generally has 5 horizontal lines | Staff |
| is notes that are played smooth & connected | Legato |
| is notes that are played short & detached | Staccato |
| is a 3-note cord | Triad |
| the first note of any scale built on the first step of the scale & sounds very stable & complete | Tonic |
| is a group of notes that are played or sung together | Chord |
| is a chord that is broken up & played one note at a time | Arpeggio |
| means to play soft | Piano |
| means to play medium soft | Mezzo piano |
| means to play very soft | Pianissimo |
| means to play loud | Forte |
| means to play medium loud | Mezzo forte |
| means to play very loud | Fortissimo |
| means to gradually become louder | Crescendo |
| means to gradually become softer | Decrescendo |
| is the rate or speed of the beat | Tempo |
| means to play broad, slow | Largo |
| means to play cheerful, somewhat fast | Allegro |
| means to play very quick | Presto |
| is the pattern w w½ w w w½ | Major scale |
| sounds sadder, the third scale degree is lower a half step | Minor scale |
| includes all the notes of the piano, both the black & the white keys | Chromatic scale |
| placed in front of the note, raises the note by half step | Sharp sign |
| placed in front of the note, it lowers a note by half step | Flat sign |
| is the sign that cancels out a sharp or flat | Natural sign |
| is when flats & sharps are placed at the beginning of each line of music to indicate what key the work is played in | Key Signature |
| shifting from one key to another within a single composition | Modulation |
| is the term used to describe a central note, scale, or chord | Key |
| means to add or change notes in the melody | Embellish |
| are short sections of melodies | Phrases |
| is a resting point in a melody | Cadence |
| a round of canon results from this compositional technique | Imitation |
| incorporates any of these formations: AB, AABB, AAB, or ABB | Binary form |
| incorporates the form ABA | Ternary form |
| is a polyphonic genre incorporating strict imitation | Canon or round |
| is one melodic line with no accompaniment | Monophony |
| is a single predominant line of music with accompaniment | Homophony |
| is two or more melodies of equal interest | Polyphony |
| is the highest female voice type | Soprano |
| is the mid-range femlae voice type | Mezzo soprano |
| is the lowest female voice type | Alto |
| is the highest male voice type | Tenor |
| is the mid-range male voice type | Baritone |
| is the lowest male voice type | Bass |
| is the technique of plucking a violin string with the finger | Pizzicato |
| is a small group of instruments where each player plays his or her own part | Chamber ensemble |
| is a large group of instruments from different families | Orchestra |
| is a plucked string instrument, not a bowed one | Harp |
| is a woodwind instrument, not a brass one | Bassoon |
| is a keyboard instrument | Harpsichord/Organ |
| is a brass instrument | Trombone |
| is a percussion instrument | Xylophone |
| is a woodwind instrument | Flute |
| is a stringed instrument | Double Bass |
| Some percussion instruments produce a ____ pitch & others produce an _____ pitch | definite, indefinite |
| ______ music does not need a conductor | Chamber |
| ___ ensembles do not include any stringed instruments | Wind |
| if each word is set to a spearate note, a musical line is this | Syllabic |
| is one syllable spread over several notes in a melody line | Mellismatic |
| the texts for secular music in the Middle Ages were written in this style | Vernacular |
| was developed in the Middle Ages, it was sung in Latin & is monophonic | Gregorian Chant |
| was an abbess, a composer & an author | Hildegard of Bingen |
| was a French composer who wrote the first complete polyphonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass | Guillaume de Machaut |
| was a troubadour & a noblewoman | Beatriz of Dia |
| Music notation was developed during the ____ ____ | Middle Ages |
| During Middle Ages, _____ did not participate in church music expect in convents | women |
| The _____ was NOT a popular Renaissance keyboard instrument because it had not yet been invented | piano |
| is a term used to indicate someone who is well educated in many areas | Renaissance man |
| education & literacy became more widespread during the Renaissance, in part due to the invention of this | Printing press |
| is a composer credited with returing church music to the simplicity of earlier times | Palestrina |
| investigated every aspect of religious discipline, including church music | Council of Trent |
| is a term that refers to music sung without accompainment | A cappella |
| is the reaction by the Catholic church to the spread of Protestantism | Counter-Reformation |
| is an Italian renaissance secular musical genre with sentimental or erotic poetry | Madrigal |
| is a French secualr song | Chanson |
| is a German secular song | Lied |
| is a technique in music written to represent the literal meaning of the text | Word painting |
| _____ music was written for dance music as well as other types of ____ music | Instrumental |
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