The Six Concepts of Music
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| show | The way the piece is constructed.
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| Binary Form | show 🗑
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| Ternary Form | show 🗑
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| Rondo Form | show 🗑
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| show | Is similar to rondo form. The main theme is usually a distinctive melody, which is then changed and adapted in subsequent sections.
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| show | The piece does not repeat any material.
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| Strophic Form | show 🗑
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| show | Used in popular music. This form uses verses, choruses, bridges, solo's, into's and outgo's.
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| show | The quality of sound.
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| show | The tone colour changes every time the line up of instruments change.
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| Change of Dynamics | show 🗑
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| show | Woodwind, Brass, Percussion, Strings
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| Woodwind (No Reed) | show 🗑
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| show | Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone
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| Woodwind (Double Reed) | show 🗑
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| Strings | show 🗑
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| show | Cornet, Trumpet, Trombone, Bass Trombone, French Horn, Tuba
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| show | Bass Drum, Snare Drum, Conga's, Bongo's, Timpani
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| Percussion (Keyboard) | show 🗑
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| Percussion (Auxiliary) | show 🗑
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| Non-Western Instruments | show 🗑
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| show | Any instrument which uses a vibrating column of air.
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| Membranophones | show 🗑
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| show | Any instrument which uses a vibrating string.
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| Idiophones | show 🗑
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| Electric Sounds | show 🗑
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| show | Structure, Tone Colour, Dynamic and Expressive Techniques, Pitch, Duration, Texture
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| show | Volume Level
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| Pianissimo (pp) | show 🗑
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| Piano (p) | show 🗑
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| show | Moderately Soft
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| Mezzo Forte (mf) | show 🗑
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| Forte (f) | show 🗑
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| show | Very Loud
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| Sforzando (sfz) | show 🗑
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| show | To gradually get louder.
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| show | To gradually get softer
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| Expressive Techniques | show 🗑
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| show | Smoothly and well connected.
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| Staccato | show 🗑
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| Accent | show 🗑
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| Vibrato | show 🗑
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| show | The quick repetition of the same note.
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| Tenuto | show 🗑
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| Glissando | show 🗑
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| show | The layers of sound in a piece.
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| show | A single layer, one melodic line, unison.
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| Homophonic Texture | show 🗑
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| show | Multiple layers, many melodic lines playing at the same time, complex melodies and counter melodies.
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| Unison | show 🗑
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| Doubling | show 🗑
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| Imitation | show 🗑
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| show | Occurs when a solo instrument makes a melodic statement or "call" and a larger group replies with a different statement.
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| show | Occurs when melodic contour of two melodies is the same.
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| show | Means that melodies move in opposite directions.
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| Duration | show 🗑
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| Rhythm | show 🗑
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| Polyrhythm | show 🗑
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| show | A type of polyrhythm where two metres are played at the same time. Mostly cross rhythms are used when 3/4 is played against 6/8.
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| Ostinato | show 🗑
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| show | A short repeated phrase. ONLY used in popular music.
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| Free Rhythm | show 🗑
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| show | The main time of a unit of a composition.
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| show | The underlying pattern of strong beats.
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| Metre | show 🗑
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| Bar | show 🗑
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| show | A note(s) occurring before the first beat of the first bar of a composition. These notes together with the notes in the incomplete last bar add to create one complete bar of music.
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| show | Numbers used at the beginning of a composition to explain the metre, or how many beats are in each bar.
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| show | Based on simple, or whole beats lake crotchets or minims (e.g. 2/4, 3/4, 4/4)
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| Compound Time | show 🗑
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| Multimetre | show 🗑
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| show | Means emphasis or stress. Achieved by playing one note or chord louder than the others.
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| show | Occurs when the accent is on the weaker beats.
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| show | Is a feature of rock, popular and rhythm and blues music.
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| show | The highness and lowness of sound.
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| show | Is a series of pitches, one after the other.
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| Scale | show 🗑
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| Major Scale | show 🗑
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| Minor Scale | show 🗑
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| show | Consisting of all semitones
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| Pentatonic Scale | show 🗑
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| show | Aeolian (Minor), Lydian, Phrygian, Ionian (major), Dorian, Mixolydian, Locrian
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| show | Tone, Semitone, Tone, Tone, Tone, Semitone, Tone, Tone.
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| Lydian | show 🗑
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| show | Semitone, Tone, Tone, Tone, Semitone, Tone, Tone.
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| show | Tone, Tone, Semitone, Tone, Tone, Tone, Semitone.
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| Dorian | show 🗑
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| show | Tone, Tone, Semitone, Tone, Tone, Semitone, Tone
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| Locrian | show 🗑
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| Raga | show 🗑
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| show | The distance between one pitch and he pitch closest to it.
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| Tone | show 🗑
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| Imitation | show 🗑
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| Repetition | show 🗑
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| show | A repeated pattern of note.
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| Sequence | show 🗑
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| show | The frilly bits added to a melody to make it sound more interesting.
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| show | To create music at the time of the performance.
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| show | A musical sentence. Contains pat or all of the melody.
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| show | A part of the melody that has an important roll in a composition.
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| Fragment | show 🗑
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| show | The distance from the lowest note to the highest note.
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| Interval | show 🗑
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| Contour | show 🗑
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| show | Counter Melody, Call and Response, Question and Answer, Cannon
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| show | A second contrasting melody that is played at the same time and the main melody.
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| Call and Response | show 🗑
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| Question and Answer | show 🗑
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| show | A melodic construction where the tune or theme is introduced, then a few bars later, another instrument or line plays the same melody, followed by another instrument and another etc.
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| show | Most compositions rebased on one pitch acts as a "home".
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| Harmony (modulation) | show 🗑
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| show | Where three or more notes are played together.
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| show | The name of a pattern of chords.
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| show | The rate the music moves from one chord to the next.
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| Harmony (Cadence) | show 🗑
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| Consonant Harmony | show 🗑
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| show | Unpleasant to hear.
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