Music App

• Enharmonic


  two different pitches that share the same letter name is an
• Diatonic Scale

  • Uses seven different pitches in a specific pattern of half steps and whole steps ending with first pitch and octave higher.
• Pentatonic scale 


  A five note scale
• Whole tone scale


  Uses only whole step intervals
• Melody


  An organized succession of pitches that seem to belong together
• Phrases


  can be long or short in length and can be made up of intervals that are steps or leaps?
• Theme


  is a melody that serves as a basis for a composition or a section of a composition
• Motive


  A short musical idea
• Harmony


  Is the result of several pitches being perceived as occurring together.
• Block Chord

  •  a chord in which all the notes are sounded together simultaneously 
• An arpeggio


  occurs when the notes of the chord are presented in succession
• Chord progression usually end with a cadence
• Cadence


  A short series of chords that provide a musical point of rest
• Texture


  refers to how many layers or lines of sound are heard, what kinds of layer they are, and how they are related to each other
• Monophonic texture


  a single melodic line without any accompaniment
• Homophonic texture 


  music with one clearly dominant melody line accompanied by subordinate music that supports the melody
• Polyphonic texture

  • is music with 2 or more melodic lines of relatively equal interest and importance that occur at the same time and move wither own distinct rhythms and contours
• Contrapuntal texture

  • the separate voices or lines seem to compete with each other for the listener's attention.
• Form


  is the general plan or structure of a piece of music
• Repetition 


  is a repeat of the same musical material that was heard before
• Understanding musical structure or form


  is a way of anticipating what will happen next in the music.
• • Binary form


  is a two-part form made of two contrasting sections.
• Ternary Form


  consists of three major sections
• • Rondo Form
  • is based on the repeated return of the same theme or section in the tonic key that alternates with contrasting themes or section
• Theme and Variation form


  involves presenting a theme and then following it with a series of variations of that same theme based on slightly altering the melody
• Strophic Form


  A vocal form
• Style 


  Refers to the features that characterize musical works or performances and make them unique
• In class we listened to 3 different styles of Beethoven's 5th symphony
• The Violin 


  originated in the late 1400s as a 3 stringed instrument, but by the mid 1500s a 4th string had been added
• A modern classical guitar typically has six strings.
• Leo Fender


  Invented the first electric bass guitar in 1951
• Double reeds are made out of a type of grass called Arundo donax
• Oboe


  Invented in the mid-17th century
• Originally, the bassoon jobs was to play the bass part opposite the oboes in a baroque orchestra
• Clarinet


  Invented at the beginning of the 18th century