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even pulse that divides the passing of time into equal segments |
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organization of time in music |
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gathering of beats into regular groups |
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two numbers, one on top of the other, placed at the beginning of music to tell the performer how the beats of the music are to be grouped |
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first and strongest beat in the measure/second beat is accented |
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accent placed on weak or between beats |
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speed at which beats occur |
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robbing, steal additional time by slowing down |
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relative position of a musical sound |
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pitch that sounds like a previous pitch but at a level up |
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gridwork of lines and spaces |
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combination of clefs to list wide range of instrument |
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space between two clefs marked temporarily |
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indicates range of pitch melody is to be played or sung |
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covers lower range used for lower instruments: trombone, cello, man’s voice |
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covers upper range and is appropriate for high instruments: trumpet, violin |
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organization of music around the central tone or tonic |
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arrangement of pitches that ascends and descends in a fixed and unvarying pattern |
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central pitch melodies gravitate around and end |
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succession of whole and half steps that proceeds 1-1-1/2-1-1-1-1/2, happy sounding |
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goes 1-1/2-1-1-1/2-1-1, sad sounding |
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preplaced sharps or flats, show key piece is written, show scale employed |
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written in either major or minor scale using only 7 notes of each |
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all 12 pitches half step apart |
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melodies moving in step/out of step |
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[ difference between lowest and highest note covered in piece ] |
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[ shape of notes on staff ] |
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[ balancing notes resembling wave pattern ] |
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dependent idea within a melody -one line of music- |
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concluding part of a musical phrase |
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basic chord in music consists of three pitches arranged in a specific way |
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fifth note of scale, wants to return to tonic |
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fourth note of scale, wants to carry forward to dominant |
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broken traid with notes entering staggered, part of melody harmony or supports it |
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change from one key to another |
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pitches sounding agreeable and stable/disagreeable and unstable |
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tone quality of musical sound |
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highly expressive because of its range for sound |
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higher/lower women’s voices |
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higher/lower men’s voices |
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chief string instrument, high range, most similar to human voice |
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6 inches longer than violin, lower sound, |
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largest lowest sounding string instrument |
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wobbling hand to mix pitches adding richness |
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rapidly repeating same pitch with quick up and down strokes of the bow |
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cut bow certain way to play two notes at one time |
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rich in lower range, light airy on top |
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single reed, mellower than flute |
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double reed, first non string instrument to be added to the orchestra, everyone tunes to it because it’s so hard to tune |
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even lower than bassoon, lowest of all orchestral instruments |
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high, bright, cutting sound |
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first brass instrument to join the orchestra, rich, mellow sound, hunting horn |
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middle range of brass, large and full, no vents but slide to produce sounds |
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largest lowest sounding brass, full, muffled sounds, |
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pitched or or unpitched instruments |
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drum like in appearance, thunder like in sound |
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wooden bars struck by mallets |
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