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WorksheetsMusic Vocab
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is timbre?
The tone and height of sound
The theoretical analysis of music
The color and resonance of sound
Something you yell when a tree falls
What is an attribute of the study of music?
It is multidisciplinary
It is primarily subjective in nature
It is very narrow in scope
It is only for the elite
What is pitch?
To throw a baseball
How high or low a note sounds, determined by the sound wave's frequency.
The direction music goes, and direction drives structure
How high or low an instrument can play sounds
What are dynamics?
The call and response between musicians in orchestras and ensembles
Stylistic choices musicians make that depend on the context & genre
The texture of all on stage or in a recording
The volume level in music, and how it connects to the overall mood of the piece
What does architectonic analysis refer to?
The structure and form of a musical work
The buildings and chapels where 18th century music was compose in Italy
The way sounds fluctuate the way stairs in a building go up and down
The levels of music and rounds in a song
What are the two basic directions of dynamic change?
Crescendo
Rubato
Portamento
Decrescendo
What is register?
Something you put money into
The range in pitch of an instrument, voice, or musical passage
The highest pitch reached in a musical passage
The way music transitions between sections
What is a motif?
A red herring
A recurring figure or phrase in music that is meaningful to the overall piece's structure
A random group of notes that a composer really likes to use repeatedly
What is a cadence?
a musical arrival that punctuates a phrase, sometimes is climactic in nature
a musical destination that uses color and tempo to end a song
akin to a sentence of music in the context of a full story
a change in volume level
What is a phrase?
a single note that leads to other sections of music
a complete musical idea that serves as a building block for an entire piece of music
something you say in English
some lyrics that are part of a stanza
