Pitch made up of what two things
melody and harmony
Rhythm
The beat. Duration of pitches long notes short notes
Melody
The tune. Vertical Arrangement of music
Harmony
Horizontal arrangement
Treble Cleft
“High” or “G” clef. Marks G
Bass Clef
Low clef or “F” clef. Marks f
C clef
Shows where C note is
7 basic notes
ABCDEFG
First line of a staff starts with what note?
Starting from bottom, the very first line should be E. The following space note is F, the next line note is G, the next space note is A, and so on.
Piano Keys (Black and white keys)
C D EF G A B
_!_!__!_!_!_!

After every cluster of two black keys, the white key directly following the second black key is E, and then FBABCD.

Black Keys either ____ or _____ the note. symbols for this?
raise #= sharp, or lower (messed up lower case b thing)= flat.
Forte
Piano Forte is the full name for a piano.
Lower case f
represents a forte (LOUD)
Lower case p
reps piano (soft)
lower case mf
medium forte, or medium loud
lower case mp
reps Meduim soft, or medium piano
lower case pp
Reps pianissimo, very soft.
Texture
How thick or thin a piece of music is
Monophonic
thin texture-all melody, one person singing a song or a group singing at the exact same time
Homophonic
H stands for harmony here. Medium texture, melody over Harmony
polyphonic
many sounds. Thick texture. that time we sang row row row your boat all at different times
Consonance
Sounds that blend well. (Release of tension)
Dissonance
sounds that bite; don’t blend well. Tention
Binary form
AB
Ternary form
ABA ex twinkle twinkle
Articulation
conjunt and disjunct movement of melody. staccato, and legato
staccato
detatched
legato
smooth, connected, flowing
major
higher, happier sounds
minor
lower, sadder sounds
Intervals
pieces flip flopping between major and minor?
Duple
is also a duration of 1? the regular note value duration in compound and or triple meter.
Triple metre
(or triple meter, also known as triple time) is a musical metre characterized by a primary division of 3 beats to the bar
downbeat
is the impulse that occurs at the beginning of a bar in measured music.[3] Its name derives from the downward stroke of the director or conductor’s baton at the start of each measure. It frequently carries the strongest accent of the rhythmic cycle.
Upbeat, or “anacrusis”
an anticipatory note or succession of notes occurring before the first barline of a piece, sometimes referred to as an ‘upbeat figure’, section or phrase. An alternative expression is “anacrusis” (from Greek. ana: “up towards” and krousis: “to strike”; Fr. anacrouse).
Renaissance
1400-1600
Modes.
Mostly vocal,
Sacred.
vocal, monophonic sacred.
Male vocals
Baroque
1600-1750
inventon of opera
J.S. Bach
Doctrine of emotion
Intrumental and Vocal
Sacred and Secular
major and minor
G.F. Handel
“Word Painting”
Classical
1750-1820
Handel-Melody focused
Mozart-secular
1820-1827
Beethoven gets his own area of transition
Romantic
1827-1900
Vaugener: Hitler’s Fav composer
“extremely” can be put in front of everything.
Diverse and Complex
1900-2000
Brass
Trombone, french horn, tuba, trumpet
Woodwind
obo, flute, claironette, basoon, picalo
String
violin, harp, chello, viola
percussion
drums and zylophone