MW Week 1 Review

A musical form where parts enter at different times but have the same melody throughout.

• Canon

• Melody

• Call & Response

Steady recurring pulse.

• Clave

• Beat

The structure and design of a musical piece.

• Timbre

• Form

The highness or lowness of a sound, determined by its frequency of vibration.

• Timbre

• Pitch

Term designating a particular type of music with a distinctive form of sound.

• Genre

• Melody

A question & answer pattern in which a group responds to a leader. In music we do this with singing or instruments

• Canon

• Call & Response

A basic rhythmic pattern that provides the foundation for the complex rhythms played by multiple drums.

• Clave

• Beat

A variety of contrast in tempo (fast or slow), timbre, dynamics (loud or soft), and meter (time)

• Clave

• Contrast & Variety

An intentionally organized succession of musical tones (the part of the song that everyone knows

• Melody

• Form

The distinctive tonal quality of an instrument or voice, which is clearly identifiable by the ear

• Melody

• Timbre