– is a texture where there is a sameness of rhythm in all parts – condition of homophony
Melody
The aspect of music having to do with the succession of pitches; also applied (“a melody”) toany particular succession of pitches
Accompaniment Virtuosic
Dissonance
considered unstable (or temporary, transitional)
conflict in music
Consonance
sounds that are pleasant – a harmony, chord, or interval considered stable
Metrical
Composed in poetic Meter – a background of stressed and unstressed beats in a simple, regular repeating pattern.
A-metrical
Not written in poetic meter.
Drone
a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece.
Homophonic
A musical texture that involves only one melody of real interest; combined with chords or other subsidiary sounds
Mode (Major/Minor)
In music since the Renaissance, one of the two types of tonality: major mode or minor mode; also, in earlier times, one of several orientations of diatonic scale with D,E,F, and G.