tone created by the frequency of vibration within a vibrating body
melody
a succession of mulitple pitches
conjunct melody
a melody that moves in gradual or stepwise motion
disjunct melody
a melody that moves in skips
chord
simultaneous sounding of multiple pitches
harmony
structure and relation of chords and melody
timbre
tone color or character
In other words, if a flute plays a note, and then an oboe plays the same note, for the same length of time, at the same loudness, you can still easily distinguish between the two sounds, because a flute sounds different from an oboe. This difference is in the timbre of the sounds.
texture
how musical lines relate to one and other
monophony
texture
single line
homophony
texture
one line predominates
heterophony
texture
multiple interpretations of the same melody
antiphony
texture
when two or more voices inteact, call and response