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Flashcards by Pin Sangkaeo, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Pin Sangkaeo
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Alberti Bass | Kind of broken/arpeggiated chord |
| Canon | Contrapuntal melody with one or more imitations of the melody after a duration |
| Canonic | used to describe a polyphonic style of music in which all the parts have the same melody but which start at different times |
| Chordal accompaniment | the additional but subordinate music used to support a melodic line |
| Contrapuntal | a musical texture in which the interaction of several lines creates harmonies |
| counterpoint | he relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour |
| Imitation | Contrapuntal echoing of a voice in another part |
| Imitative polyphony | A musical texture featuring two or more equally prominent, simultaneous melodic lines, those lines being similar in shape and sound |
| Nonimitative polyphony | Polyphony where the materials for each independent voice is unique |
| countermelody | a second but subordinate melodic line sometimes found in music which has a melody and an accompaniment |
| Fugal imitation | Imitation of the subject which enters at a different pitch level, usually the fourth or fifth |
| Heterophony | two or more musicians simultaneously performing slightly different versions of the same melody. Each version would be improvised versions of the melody |
| Homophony | a style of composition in which there is one melody, and all the voices and accompaniments move rhythmically together |
| Chordal homophony/chordal texture/homorhythmic | chordals style writing where voices move in the same rhythm and change pitch |
| Melody with accompaniment | one melody with a homophonic accompaniment. |
| Brass | Tubular wind instruments usually made of brass. |
| Continuo | an instrumental accompaniment that is read from only a given bass line (often with figures). The continuo typically consists of a low bass instrument that plays a single-voice bass line |
| Percussion | instruments that are sounded by striking, shaking, plucking, or scraping |
| Rhythm section | group in jazz usually piano and/or guitar, bass, drum set |
| Strings | Division of the orchestra: Instruments that make their sound from strings which are bowed or plucked |
| Timbre | the quality of a sound, that component of a tone that causes different instruments to sound different from each other while they are both playing the same note |
| Woodwinds | those instruments that are made of wood and sounded by means of air |
| melody | tune |
| monophony | music that is written for only one voice or part |
| Obbligato | an accompanying, yet very important part of the music that should not be omitted, such as a countermelody |
| Ostinato | a repeated rhythmic/pitch pattern |
| Polyphony | a style of composition that has many voices, each with its own melody, thus creating a rich texture of sound |
| Register | Range of set of pitches |
| Solo | a single performer / a passage that is to be performed by a single performer |
| Soli | A directive to perform the indicated passage of a composition with an entire section of an ensemble |
| tessitura | the vocal or instrumental range most used by a singer or instrument |
| Tutti | a direction to indicate that all performers are to take part |
| walking bass | a bass line that moves steadily in a rhythm contrasting to that of the upper parts |
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