Music Exam Review Flash Cards
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- What is Dynamics?
- The degree of loadness or softness of a sound
- What is elements
- dynamics, form, harmony, melody, texture, timbre and rythem
- What is form?
- the shape or structure of a piece of music
- What is gamelan?
- Indonesian percussion orchestra
- What is genre?
- a category of composition characterized by a particular style, form and content.
- What is groove?
- when you ahve a group playing together and it flows/fits and natural
- What is harmony?
- the combination of simaltereous notes (chords) and their composition and progression
- WHat is Imitation?
- the repetition by one voice of a melody, phase or motif stated earlier in a composition by another voice.
- What is improvising?
- composing, playing, or singing on the spur of the moment without the aid of written music
- What is and interval?
- the dustance in oitch between any two notes
- What is intonation?
- the ability to play or sing in tune
- What is a measure?
- means of organizing rythm by grouping together a specified number of beats (bars)
- What is a melody?
- an arrangement of pitches in a musically expressive succession
- What is a metre?
- a rythm characterized by regular recurrence of a systematic arrangment of basic patterns
- what is music instrument digital interface (MIDD)
- a mean of composing arranging editing and recording music with the air of a computer
- what is Motif?
- a dominant reccuring element of a theme
- what is aural?
- to the ear or the sence of hearing
- What is balance?
- the natural stability achived by the even distribition of sounds
- WHat is binary?
- a musical form containing two divisions or sections
- what is blend?
- the combining of sounds so that the seprate parts can't be ditingushed.
- What is bridge?
- a musicial passage linking two sections of a composition
- what is consonance?
- a musicial sound that is satisfactory to the ear. what consites consonanos is not structary laid down and must depend on individual assesment creative process
- what is perception?
- the germination or motion of a musicial idea
- What is productin?
- the composing arranging or editing of an idea
- what is judgement?
- the evaluation and revsion of the product
- what is intitial reaction?
- spontaneous verbalization by the listener as he or she comes into contact with the work
- What is description?
- a list of the elements utilized by the composer in the production of the work
- What isw analysis?
- a descriptive enumeration of the aesthetic principals used by the composer in the work
- what is interpretation?
- an erplanauon of the symbolic value of the elements and principals used by the composer
- What is judgememnt?
- an evaulation of the pertinence of the work within up a scale
- what is digital?
- a way recording music in which the sound waves are represntes digility (as a numbered sequence in a computer) resulting in a much clearer recording with very little backstage noise.
- what is a phrase?
- a short musicial thought that is typically two to four measures long
- what is peal time
- sound input through live profermances
- What is repertoure?
- the acaumeated pieces that a performer or group of profprmers of silence in music
- What is rythem?
- musical sounds organized according to duratation
- What is a sequence?
- a computer prograham that records music one or many tracks
- What is a tempo?
- the speed of a peice of music
- What is termanry?
- a musicial form containing three divisions or sections
- What is tertture?
- a pattern of musicians sound created by notes or lines of music played or sung together
- what is theme?
- a melodic subject of a piece of music or the tune
- what is timbre?
- the characteristic quality of the sound pronounced by a particular
- what is triad?
- a chord of 3 notes