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42 Cards in this Set
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What does the tempo marking mean ? |
How fast the piece is |
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What does rubato mean ? |
Robbed time |
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What does the top number in the time signature tell you ? |
How many beats there are per bar. |
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Is the 7/8 regular or irregular metre? Explain your answer. |
Irregular |
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Describe regular metre |
- It has the same pattern of beats all the way through the piece - Every beat in each bar is the same length - The time signature is either simple (2,3 or 4 has to) or compound (6, 9, 12 as a top number) |
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What is free metre ? |
Music with no pattern to the beats at all |
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Describe syncopation |
String beats are moved away from the first beat of the bar onto a weaker beat. Gives an off - beat sound. |
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What is a triplet? |
3 notes played in the space of 2 |
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What does a dot do after a note ? |
Adds half of its value |
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Explain what hemiola is. |
Where 2 bars of simple triple time (E.g 3/4) are played as if they were 3 bare of simple duple time (E.g 2/4) |
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Name 3 composers who use Hemiolas |
Vivaldi, Handel, Bach |
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Describe Poly rhythms |
2 or more rhythms played at the same time |
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Describe Bi - rhythms |
The time signatures can be split up into different patterns of beats |
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Describe cross rhythms |
2 or more rhythms that didn't fit together are played at the same time |
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What sort of music often uses polyrhythms & cross rhythms ? |
African |
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What's a drum fill ? |
Little drum solo's used to build music up or to change between sections. |
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Describe diatonic harmony |
The notes thar belong to the main key of the piece |
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Describe chromatic Harmony |
The notes don't belong to the main key of the piece |
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Define consonance |
Chords & intervals that sound nice, fit |
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Give 3 examples of consonant chords |
3rds, 5ths, 6ths, octaves. |
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What is a drone ? |
A long held on note in the bass |
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What type of music uses a lot of drones? |
Indian Music |
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What's a pedal note ? |
Repeated notes in the bass part |
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Define modulation |
Changing key |
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What is the dominant key if C major ? |
G major |
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What's a pivot chord? |
A chord that's the same in both the old key (tonic) and the new key |
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What does Tierce de Picardie |
Finishing a minor piece with a major 3rd |
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What is texture? |
How the parts fit together |
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Explain what is meant by imitation. |
Repeat a phrase with a slight changes |
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What is Canon? |
The sane melody is played in different parts |
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What's a loop? |
Cutting piece of tape and sticking the ends together so they could be played over and over again - this is looping. |
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Describe layering |
Lots of different loops being played at the same time |
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Give another word for contrapuntal |
Polyphonic |
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Define Conjuct melody |
Where the melody is smooth - there aren't big jumps between notes. The opposite of disjunct |
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Describe disjunct |
When there are big jumps between the notes in a melody. The opposite of disjunct |
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Explain triadic melody |
A melody that moves using the notes if a triad |
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Explain scalic moldy |
A melody that using the notes of a scale |
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How did blues music start out ? |
- As a type of African American folk song. - |
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Name 2 instruments that were played in early blues piece ? |
Guitar and banjo |
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Which 3 chord patterns used in a 1-2 bar blues ? |
I, IV, V |
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Write out the chord patterns used 12 bar blues |
Flatten the third and seventh of any major scale by a semitone |
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What is a mordent? |
It instructs the per order to rapidly alternate from the written note to the adjacent note. |
