definitions

• What does the term "angular" refer to in music?

  Notes that are all over the place or far away
• What is an arpeggio?


  A broken chord
• What does "ascending" mean in musical terms?


  It refers to pitch getting higher
• What is a blue note?


  It is when you flatten a note to make it sound sad
• What does "chromatic" mean in music?


  It goes up or down in semitones
• What does "colla voce" indicate in a musical piece?

  It accompanies the voice and follows it
• What does "conjunct" mean in relation to melody?

  It means the melody is scalic
• What does "descending" refer to in music?


  It refers to pitch getting lower
• What does "disjunct" mean in musical terms?


  It means the melody is angular
• What is meant by "extreme pitch"?


  It refers to notes that are massively apart
• What are irregular phrases in music?


  They are phrases that are of different lengths
• What does "major" signify in music?


  It signifies happy and sad notes, flat and sharp
• What does "melisma" refer to?


  It is where one syllable has lots of notes
• What does "minor" signify in music?


  happy + sad notes/ flat + sharp
• What does "modal" refer to in music?


  It refers to another type of scale, e.g., Dorian
• What does "monotone" mean in music?


  It means to sing or play the same note over and over again
• What is ornamentation in music?


  It refers to decoration, e.g., mordants, twirls, trills
• What do pentatonic and hexatonic scales refer to?


  They refer to a 5 or 6 note scale
• What does "range" mean in music?


  It is the difference between the highest and lowest notes a singer can sing
• What is recitative?


  It is a musical conversation
• What are regular phrases in music?


  They are phrases that are the same length
• What does repetition mean in music?


  It means reciting phrases, words, or tunes
• What does "scalic" mean in relation to melody?


  It means melodies based on scales or notes close together
• What is a sequence in music?


  It is a tune that keeps repeating but changes pitch
• What does "syllabic" mean in music?


  It means one note per syllable
• What does "tessitura" refer to in music?


  It refers to where the music is either high or low
• What is word painting in music?


  It is when music reflects the lyrics