The 9 Standards

1. singing

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2. performing on istruments

3. improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments

4. composing and arranging music

5. reading and notating music

6. listening to, analyzing and describing music

7. evaluating music and music performances

8. understanding realtionships between music

9. understanding music in relation to history and culture

Beat
the basic pulse of music, heartbeat
Rhythm
short and long
Pitch
high and low
Tempo
Fast and slow
Timbre
the unique quality of sound of a voice or instrument
Melody
pitch and rhythm combined
Form
how music is organized
Meter
hwo music is organized mathematically
Harmony
two or more pitches sounding together
Dynamics
loud and quiet
Accelerando
to gradually get faster
Accompaniment
the musical background for a principal part or parts
Call and response
a osng style that follows a simple question and answer pattern in which a soloist calls out the melody and a group responds
Clef
a sign at the beginning of a staff to indicate the position of some particular pitch, and by extension, the pitches represented by all of the staff’s llines and spaces
Compose
the activity of creating a musical work
Composer
a person who writes musical works
conductor
person who leads a musical group
Crescendo
get gradually louder
Dynamics
the volume of sound, the loudness or softness of a musical passage
Elements of music
pitch, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, timbre, texture, form in music
ensemble
group of performers who perform together, whether instrumentalists, singers, or some combination, degree to which a group of perfomers performs with approprate balance and well coordinated articulation
form
the overall structural organization of a music composition (e.g. AB, ABA, call and response, verse and refrain, rondo, theme and variations, sonata-allegro) and the interrelationships of music events within the overall structure
Harmony
the sounding together of two or more tones
improvise
compose music while performing it; commonly assoicated with jazz
Lyrics
the words that are sung in a song
melody
in the most general sense, a coherent succession of pitches, refers to successive rather than simultaneous sounds
meter
grouping in which a succession of rhythmic pulses or beats is organized, indicated by a meter signature at the beginning of a work
Notation
any means of writng down music
pitch
the highness or lowness of sound
Rhythm
an element of music, organization of sound (notes lengths) and silence in time
Ritardando
gradually slow down
Round
composition for two or more voices in which one voice enters after another in exact imitation of the first, a round is the simplest type of canon
Staff
group of equidistant horizontal lined, now always five, on which notes are placed in such a way as to indicate pitch
Tempo
speed of the beat
Tempo markings

adagio-slow temp, often said to be slower than andante but not as slow as largo

allegro-fast, lively

largo-very slow

andante-walking tempo

moderato- moderately fast

texture
the character of the different layers of sound in music
Timbre
character or quality of a sound that distinguishes one instrument, voice, or other sound source form another