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