AP Music Theory Vocab : Chapter 4 & 5
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- Focal Point
- The highest note of the melody.
- Direct (or hidden) 5th or 8ve
- What results when the outer parts move in the same direction into a P5 or P8, with a leap in the soprano part.
- Counterpoint
- Refers to the combining of relatively independent musical lines.
- Objectionable Parallels
- Parallels What results when two parts that are separated by a P5 or a P8, or by their octave equivalents, move to new pitch classes that are separated by the same interval.
- Diatonic
- Chords made up only of notes from the scale on which the passage is based.
- Altered or Chromatic
- Chords using notes not in the scale.
- Musical Score
- A tool used by a composer, conductor, or analyst that shows all the parts of an ensemble arranged one above the other, enabling the experienced reader to "hear" what the composition will sound like.
- Voice Leading
- The ways in which chords are produced by the motions of individual musical lines.
- Open Structure
- An octave or more between soprano and tenor.
- Full Score
- All or most of the parts of a score are notated on their own individual staves.
- Reduced Score
- The score is notated at concert pitch on as few staves as possible.
- Close Structure
- Less than an octave between soprano and tenor.
- Voicing
- How the chord is to be distributed or spaced.
- Harmonic Progression
- The ways in which chords are selected.