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Four Properties of musical sound |
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Pitch Dynamics Tone Duration |
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Relative highness or lowness in sound |
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Degrees of loudness or softness in music |
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Sound that has a definite pitch (specific sound) |
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Distance in Pitch b/tw any two tones |
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when tones that sound very much alike are separated by intervals |
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Distance b/tw the lowest and highest tones that a voice or instrument can produce |
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Soprano (highest) Mezzo soprano Alto |
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-Strings (guitar,lutes, cellos) -Woodwinds (flute, clarinet) -Percussion (drums, cymbals) -Keyboards (pianos, organs) -Brass (Trumpets) |
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Definite Pitch Instrument |
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Timpani Glockenspiel Xylophone Celesta Chimes |
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Indefinite Pitch Instrument |
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Snare Drum Base Drum Tambourine Triangle Cymbals Gong |
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-Piano: sound produced by vibrations -Harpsichord: Loud harsh sounding instrument -Pipe Organ: Large instrument with pipes |
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Flow of music through time |
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Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time |
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organization of beats into regular groups |
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when a note is played louder than the notes around it |
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Very slow and solemn (sad) |
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Moderately slow, a walking pace |
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Played as fast as possible |
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How many different layers are heard at once, to what layers they are and how they relate to one another |
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First or stressed beat of a measure |
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Notetaking music from others to read composers used this language |
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Occurs when a performer emphasizes a tone by playing it more loudly than those around |
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It is more difficult to sing because of |
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Total instrument sound is register |
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Vibration of brass instruments |
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String player causes small string fluctuation |
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Basic chord used in western music |
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Combination of 3 tones sounded at once |
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uses the first 7 to indicate pitch |
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By adding a dot to right of note it increases duration |
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how many beats fall in measure |
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traditional western music smallest interval |
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Texture of a single melodic line w/o accompanying |
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