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MH_Midterm_Terms
Music History Midterm Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dynamics | how soft or loud the melody is and the variations of this – variations of loudness in music. |
| Crescendo | increasing in force |
| Diminuendo | decreasing in force/loud |
| Melodic ostinato | short melodic phrase repeated throughout a composition, sometimes slightly varied or transposed to a different pitch. [in inglese |
| Call-and-response | West African technique for vocals; the first player sings or plays something and a second player or group responds or repeats it. |
| Melody | succession of sounds forming a musical idea; gives the piece its character. |
| Pitch | how high or low the note sounds. |
| Register | the “height” or range of a note, set of pitches, melody, instrument, etc. |
| Conduct melody | when the notes are next to each other in the same melody |
| Disjunct | notes in the melody are not next to each other |
| Glissando | sweep sound; slide between pitches (like a trombone) |
| Pitch bending | same as glissando, but for vocals. |
| Range | the span of pitches the instrument or voice can produce. |
| Hocket | melody put together by many people pitching in a single note. |
| Falsetto | comes from the Italian word “Falso” which means false. A high pitched male voice that sounds fake; false. (used in merengue) |
| Ornamentation | when a melody repeats and it has minor variations or musical flourishes over the melody. |
| Scales | groups of pitches at different sounds, essentially. Any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch. |
| Major vs minor | major is happy, minor is sad --> western scales |
| Harmony | melody has a blend of three or more pitches sounding simultaneously |
| Chords | units of three notes or more, used in harmonizing. (think piano chords). |
| Dissonant harmony | sounds like it clashes |
| Consonant harmony | sounds good together |
| Improvisation | when the melodies of the piece start to deviate from the original and sound spontaneous. |
| Medium | what produces the sounds (instruments and voices and more) |
| Timbre | what the medium sounds like (ex; harsh, strained, smoothe, raspy, brassy, soothing, bright, dark, etc.) |
| Chordophone | string instruments |
| Aerophones | wind instruments |
| Membranophone or idiophones | percussion instruments |
| Electrophones | electric instruments |
| Homogeneous vs heterogeneous | same family of instruments played in the song versus mostly different families. |
| Texture | ***BIG CHEESE -- quality of the sound |
| Monophonic | one melody ( chants) |
| Homophonic | two or more melodies in sync (guitar and singer) |
| Polyphonic | two or more melodies out of sync (2 or more independent melodies so it sounds chaotic, like Eleanor Rigby apparently, merengue) |
| Polyrhythmic | two or more rhythms overlapping (merengue; WA music) |
| Text setting | vocal settings |
| Syllabic | when there are words and only one pitch per syllable is sung |
| Melismatic | one syllable lingers for several notes |
| Vibrato | singer makes their voice vibrate on a single pitch |
| Rhythm | music's pattern in time; organization of the duration of musical sounds; some are longer than others) |
| Beat | if you can clap to it. (dance music) -- pulse of the music |
| Free rhythm | no beat; you can’t clap to it. |
| Accelerando | music speeds up |
| Ritardando | music slows down’ |
| Meter | the grouping of a specific number of beats. (duple, triple,etc.) |
| Tempo | speed! |
| Verse-chorus or verse-refrain | traditional verses and chorus played, usually with a bridge |
| Strophic | if each verse is set to the same music and no refrain is present. |
| Hook | part of the song that repeats over and over |
| Bridge | transition part between the verse and chorus. |
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