MUS 142 Ch 1 and 2

What is music?

• Birds chirping

• John Cage's 4'33

• Beethoven's 5th Symphony

• Justin Bieber's Baby

The temporal aspect of sound is

What are these notes called?

• Whole Note

• Half Note

• Quarter Note

• Eighth Note

Draw a Quarter Note

The highness or lowness of a sound is referred to as...

• Tempo

• Meter

• Timbre

• Pitch

Define this term… Harmony

• a type of chord that has 3 notes

• two or more pitches that occur at the same time

• melody notes are far apart

• melody notes are close together

Frequency is decided by the shape of sound_

The loudness or softness of a sound

• Volume

• Feeling

• Texture

• Dynamic

To get louder

• Crescendo

• Decrescendo

How pitches are begun, sustained, and released

• Length

• Texture

• Articulation

• Timbre