Unit 8 Test

What term designates arrangements of music transferred from one medium to another?

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What word refers to the director of an orchestra, choir, or other performing group?

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What term is used to describe vertical blocks of different tones that sound simultaneously?

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What word means the free treatment of tempo within a musical phrase?

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What is an extended work for orchestra with several contrasting movements called?

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What term refers to a sequence of eight pitches built on the pattern of one whole step, one half step, two whole steps, one half step, and two whole steps?

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What term is used to refer to an aspect of music that controls the listener's sense of how much time has passed?

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What is a music form in which a melodic idea is stated then varied in a succession of statements?

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What term refers to a musician who reworks existing musical material?

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What is it called when harmonies are built on the first, fourth, and fifth degrees of the scale?

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