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| Highness or lowness of a sound. |
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| Rate of a sound wave’s vibration. |
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| Sound with specific pitch, produced by a constant rate of vibration of the sound-producing medium. |
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| Sign (#)indicating that a tone is to be performed one-half step higher than notated. |
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| Sign (b) indicating that a tone is to be performed one-half step lower than indicated. |
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| Five lines and four spaces on which music is notated. |
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| Distance between two pitches. |
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| Interval of an eighth, as from C to C. |
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| decrescendo or diminuendo |
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| Meaningful succession of pitches. |
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| Section of a melody, comparable to a section or phrase of a sentence. |
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| Melodic phrase repeated at different levels of pitch. |
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| Melody that is easy to recognize, memorize, and sing. |
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| Melody that recurs throughout a section, a movement, or an entire composition. |
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| Short melodic phrase that may be effectively developed. |
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| Relatively long, songlike melody. |
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| Ascending or descending pattern of half steps, whole steps, or both. |
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Ascending pattern of steps as follows:
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whole, whole, half, whole whole, whole, half.
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Ascending pattern of stpes as follows:
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whole, half, whole, whole, half, whole, whole.
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| First and most important note of the major or minor scale, to which all other notes in the scale are subordinate. |
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| The major or minor scale on which a compostion is based. |
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| Twelve consecutive half steps within the range of an octave. |
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| Six consecutive whole steps within a range of an octave. |
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| Simultatneous sounding of two or more different tones. |
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| Meaningful (as opposed to random) combination of three or more tones. |
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| Chord with three tones, consisting of two superimposed thirds. |
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| System of harmony, based on the major and minor scales, that has dominated Western music since the seventeenth century. |
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| Fifth note of the major or minor scale |
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| Fourth note of the major or minor scale |
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| Passive sound that seems to be at rest |
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| Manner in which melodic lines are used in music. |
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| polyphonic;texture (polyphony) |
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| Combination of two or more simultaneous melodic lines. |
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| Melody that may be performed by two or more voices entering at different times, producing meaningful harmony. |
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| homophonic texture (homophony) |
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| Melodic line accompanied by chordal harmony |
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| monophonic texture (monophony) |
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| One unaccompanied melodic line. |
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| Arrangement of time in music. |
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| Basic materials of which music is composed: rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre. |
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| rate of speed at which a musical piece is performed |
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| Sign that indicated silence, or the cessation of musical sound. |
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| Basic underlying pulse of music. |
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| Strong sound. Accents may be achieved by stress, duration, or position of a tone. |
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| Music in which rhythm is organized into patterns of strong and weak beats. |
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| Unit containing a number of beats |
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