Fine Art part 1

__ is the most basic of art elements.

• Line

• Dot

• Swirl

• Rectangle

__ is the highness or lowness of a sound and it is the basic building block for melody & harmony.

• Octave

• Pitch

• Tempo

__ occurs when two or more pitches sound simultaneously.

• Rhythm

• Melody

• Harmony

The __ occurs naturally in the overtone series. Western tradition divides it into __ equal intervals called half steps.

• octave

  12

• octave

  8

• meter

  12

• meter

  8

__ is a coherent succession of pitches perceived as a whole, with a beginning, middle, & end.

• Rhythm

• Octave

• Melody

Major & minor scales are sets of __ different pitches arranged in a specific pattern of whole & half steps within a single octave.

• 12

• 7

• 8

The __ is the steady, regular pulse underlying most music, & __ is the speed of the beat.

• beat, tempo

• tempo, rhythm

• meter, tempo

__ is the series of durations of varying lengths that underlie the beat.

• Harmony

• Melody

• Rhythm

Music can be represented by diagrams, with notation, or on sound recordings, each of which has limitations.

• true

• false

__ is what defines the two-dimensional area of an object, whereas __ are objects that are three-dimensional, having length, width, & depth.

• Shape, forms

• Form, shapes