Timbre
distinct sound of an instrument
Ostinato
a repeated pattern over which music occurs
Homophonic
melody + accompaniment
Sonata-Allegro Form
AB improve AB or AB (the exopsition)
development, AB recapitulation
Call and Response
preformance style where a solo voice
performs an idea and the rest echo it
comes from field hollers
Head
Tune
Changes
chord progression
click track
metronome setting played into
headphones for tempo accuracy in
recording studio
Bridge
contrasting middle section of a tune
trading fours
musicians exchanging solos in four bar groups
comping
chording intruments creating accompanments for soloists. Accompanying*
Pitch
measured in cycles per second, the vibration of a string at 220CPS is Pitch A
Improv
using material from the tun like rythhms and intervels and melodic gesture for extempornaeous playing of real time music
arranger
arranges music. creates compositions.
liberettist
writes the words for american musicals
composer
writes the music
lyricist
writes words for songs