Music Appreciation Ch. 1 - 5
What is a scale?
A limited number of fixed pitches used to make music?
An organized series of pitches played in a certain rhythm, and usually having an emotional character, is called?
A melody
The diatonic scale uses?
A set of men pitches within an octave (do re me fa sol la ti do)
The chromatic scale uses?
A set of twelve pitches within an octave (all the white and black piano keys)
What is the term for the distance, or difference in highness and lowness, between any two pitches?
An interval
What are the basic units of measurement for musical time?
Beats
How are musical instruments categorized into families or groups?
By the method they use to produce sound
A chord that sounds stable and that offers a feeling of resolution can be described as?
Consonant
What is the musical term for the level of sound, its loudness or softness?
Dynamics
Any composer's style will have unique features as well as?
Features that effete the style of his or her historical period
A standardized pattern for organizing musical elements is called?
Form
Which term refers to the shape, arrangement, relationship, or organization of the various elements of a piece of music?
Form
What term means "loud"?
Forte
If a person sings a song while plain chords on a piano, what kind of texture does the music have?
Homophonic
Music that has one main melody accompanied by other, less prominent sounds is?
Homophonic
When melodies sounding together are the same or fairly similar, with one starting shortly after another, the result is?
Imitative polyphony
Which of the these percussion instruments is capable of playing scales and melodies?
Marimba
Each occurrence of the strong beat/weak beat pattern is called?
Measure
Organizing the diatonic scale around different home pitches is what creates different?
Modes
Music that consist of a single melody without any accompanying sounds is?
Monophonic
What are the aspects of a piece of music that can determine its genre?
Text, function, and performing forces
How do rhythm and meter relate to one another in music?
The meter serves as the regular background, while the rhythm can coincide with it cut across it, or even contradict it
What does the term temp refer to?
The speed of music
Benjamin Britten wrote The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra to teach listeners?
To recognize the sounds of the various instruments of the orchestra
What is the term for a meter in which the main beats are grouped in threes?
Triple Meter
Which of the following brass instruments has the highest range?
Trumpet
Flute, clarinet, oboe, and bassoon are all members of what group?
Woodwinds
A stopping or pausing place is called?
A cadence
What is a modulation?
A change of key within a piece of music
What is a metronome?
A device that can tick out beats at any desired tempo
What is a motive?
A distinctive, easily recognizable fragment of a melody that is used repeatedly in a long composition?
The form diagram that represents a tune followed by a contrasting tune followed by a repetition of the first tune is a?
ABA for repetition of the first tune
The form diagram that represents a tune followed by a contrasting tune followed by a repetition of the first tune with significant changes is?
ABA for repetition of the first tune with significant changes
Which of the following tempo indications means that the music should be played slowly?
Adagio
Which of the following tempo indications means that the music should be played fast?
Allegro
The distinct high point of a tune is called the?
Climax
When the main beats of a duple meter are subdivided into threes, what is the resulting meter called?
Compound duple meter
When one phrase is low and the next phrase is high, or one phrase is long and the next phrase is short, they can be called?
Contrasting phrases
What term means "growing" or "getting louder"?
Crescendo
A chord that sounds unstable or tense can be described as?
Dissonant
What is the term for a meter in which the main beats are grouped in twos or fours?
Duple Meter
An octave spans how many notes?
Eight
What is an accent?
Emphasis on a certain beat to make it sound stronger than the surrounding beats
Which of the following is a form?
Fugue
What is the term for a category or type of music, such as symphony, concerto, or opera?
Genre
The repetitions and contrasts that determine the musical form?
Have an emotional effet on the listener
The twelve possible positions for the major-and minor-mode scales that are made possible by the twelve notes of the chromatic scale are called?
Keys
What produces low sound?
Long vibrating elements
A recurring pattern of strong beats and weak beats is called?
Meter
Which of the following is a genre?
String Quartet
Violin, viola, cello, bass, and harp are all members of what group?
Stringed instruments
A typical large orchestra today includes which sections?
Strings, Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion
Making a weak beat unexpectedly strong by displacing an accent is called?
Syncopation
What does the term tone color (or timbre) refer to?
The general quality of a sound, which depends on the amount and mixture of overtones produced by the instrument or voice
What is the smallest interval in regular use in Western music?
The half step
What is an octave?
The interval between two pitches that seem to "duplicate" one another at different pitch levels
If music is said to be "in the key of G major", it means that?
The major mode is positioned in G
What is tonality?
The sense of focusing around a single "home" pitch that feels more important than all the other pitches of a scale?
What is harmony?
The sounding at the same time of different pitches, in grouping called chords
What is musical texture?
The way different melodic lines and sounds interact or blend with one another
In the most general sense, what does the term rhythm refer to?
The way music unfolds in time
When the same phrase occurs at two or more different pitch levels successively, it is called a?
Sequence
Contrapuntal is a term that is often used to describe?
Polyphony
A combination of distinctive rhythms, harmonies, and tone colors contributes to a composer's?
Musical style
What is the term for music that has no underlying pattern of strong and weak beats at all?
Non-metrical
When two phrases have the same notes but different words, or the same rhythm but different notes, they can be called?
Parallel phrases
Melodies and tunes tend to fall naturally into smaller sections, called?
Phrases
The member of the flute family that is the smallest and plays in the highest range is the?
Piccolo
What is the musical term for the "highness" or "lowness" of a sound?
Pitch
Music that has two or more melodies that are played simultaneously and that are of approximately equal interest is?
Polyphonic
Elements of music such as rhythm, melody, and harmony are organized into musical form by means of?
Repetition and contrast
The form of Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is a?
Set of variations on a theme
What produces high sound?
Short vibrating elements
Which of these is a central function of musical form?
To extend music over a definite time span and hold the listener's interest
Which of the choices below lists the members of the violin family in order for the highest range to the lowest range?
Violin, Viola, Cello