Music Appreciation

Beat

• Characteristic way of using melody, rhythm, tone color, and form in music

• 450-1450

• Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time

• The shift of tonality from one tonic to other tonic within a piece

Call and Response

• Performance style in which the phases of a soloist are repeatedly answered by those of a chorus, often found in Africa and other non-western music

• Square accordion used in tango bands, operated entirely with buttons

• Instrument basically a drum whose sound is generated by a stretched skin or another membrane

• Repeated cycle of beats organizing the rhythm in Indian classical music 

Canon

• Volume of music

• Form where parts enter at different times, but have the same melody

• Composers of music

• Where music is performed

Form

• Something to fill out

• When you hit a golf ball

• The rhythm

• The structure of a song

Melody

• The main tune of the song

• When more than one pitch is played simultaneously

• Happy music

• The rhythm

Pitch

• Main tune of a song

• How high or low a note sounds

• The soccer field

• How many beats in a measure

Rhythm

• Organization of time in music

• The instrument family that uses brass

• Slow music

• Main tune of a song

Time Signature

• A texture in which there is a main melodic line with accompaniment

• The organization of musical ideas

• Indicates number of beats in a measure

• A series of different chords, one after another

Fermata

• The organization of musical ideas

• How high or low a note sounds

• Sustaining of a pitch

• Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time

Tempo

• The speed at which the beat of a song occurs

• The tune of the music

• How low or soft music sounds

• The side of your forehead