Melody
a single line of notes heard in succession as a coherent unit melody has a shape moving up and down in way that capture and hold our attention (like a story)not all music has it
Rhythm
the ordering of music through time, not all music has melody but it does have rhythm. it can be repetative underlying pulse, or beat rapidly changing patterns of longer and shorter sounds
Harmony
the sound created by multiple voices singing or playing together
Enriches Melody to by creating fuller sound
Texture
the number and general relationship of musical lines or voices to one another
sometimes many voices other times a single voice
Conjuct
melodic motion of pitches by step
Disjunct
melodic motion of pictes by leap
Major
Brigth or Happy
a type of scale prodeced by do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do or by playing the white kyes of the piano between C and C
Minor
Sounds dark and or sad
type of scale Between A and A on the piano
Interval
the distance between each note within a scale
usually whole steps
Scale
a series of notes that provide the the essential pitch building blocks of Melody
Timbre
a character of quality of sound: the same melody will sound very different when played by a different instrument
Pitch
determined by the lengths of its sound waves (a position of sound from very low to very high
Syncopation
accents between beats
Cadence
acts like a period or puncutation in song
Downbeat
the first beat It frequently carries the strongest accent of the rhythmic cycle
Hemiola
makes you want to dance, melody (repeating) and contradict rhythm melodic and rhythm create a cross rhythm 2 note pulse
measure
A rhythmic unit indicated by bar lines in writted music Presents one complete statement of meter
Key
The central note and mode on which a melody or piece is based
Modal
is jazz that uses musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework.
Chromatic
Meldoy or Harmon the has many more notes thatn occur natuarally in a scale or key on which a word is based
playing all black keys
Frequency
the number of soundwavelengths in a period of time
Dynamics
The volume of sound determined by by the size (amplitude of each wave)
Hocket
interlocking melody, 2 or more voices share a melody, Gamalon, Pigme music, cotickolin layer is when this basic melody gets elaborated
Consonance/Dissonance (overtones)
Dis- clash (harmony or melody)
Cons-ear finds note naturally right
symphonic poem
Single movement orchestral pieces of program music are often
Triad
A triad is a group of three notes having a specific construction and relationship to one another. They are constructed on 3 consecutive lines or three consecutive spaces.
Microtone
All intervals which lie between the semi-tones of the 12-note, equal-tempered tuning system
Guaguanco
cuba-rumba Cuban dance and rhythm polyrhythm and lots of syncopation
sprechstimme
A vocal style in which the melody is spoken at approximate pitches rather than sung on exact pitches…. Shoenburg
atonality
Lied
art song, romantic era (19th century), beginning of popular music business, Shcewberg
Aria
emotional sounding song in opera, more melodic and mellosmatic
Recitative
one of two types of song in opera- often speech like and syllabic, simple melodies
idee fixe
Verlious, theme for his beloved in symphony, famous melody
light motive leitmotif
Vougner used for multiple character, melodic themes to represent characters
Ostinato-
simple repeating base, repeating melody
colotomic structure
rhythmic structure of the music the first(gong) layer a lot like meter but involves rhythmic layers, what is making accents is important, combine rhythm and timbre(series of beats rhythms, and gongs)
Pierrot Lunaire
Shoenberg performance atonal
colotomic structure
rhythmic structure of the music the first(gong) layer a lot like meter but involves rhythmic layers, what is making accents is important, combine rhythm and timbre(series of beats rhythms, and gongs)
Program Symphony
type of program music, multiple movement, intend to associate the music with someone of something
Gamelan
is a musical ensemble from Indonesia