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What are the four standard vocal ranges from highest to lowest?
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Soprano, alto, tenor, bass
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What was the earliest polyphonic music called?
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Organum
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What is dissonance? how is it different from consanance?
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Music that is displeasing to the ear; different because consanance is pleasing
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What is the difference between a chorus and a choir?
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A chorus is a large group of singers and a choir is a small group
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When the intervals between pitches in a melody are large its called __________________? When they are small its called _________________?
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Disjunct and conjunct
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A coherent unit is called _______________?
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A phrase
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What is a counter melody?
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Second melody played at the same time as another melody
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What qualifies music to be homophonic?
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Music has a single melody with a single accomponament (usually a chord)
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A series of notes that either accend or decend is called?
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A scale
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An interval is...?
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The distance from one not to another
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What is pitch? and how does it relate to vibration?
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The highness or lowness of a note; taking guitar for example, when the strings are held on frets closer to the bottom of the guitar and strummed, the strings vibrate and the pitch is higher. When frets closer to the top of the guitar are held and strummed, the vibrations are slower and the pitch is lower.
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Monophonic music has how many lines of music?
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One
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A chord is _____ or more different notes sounded at the same time
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3
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What is sequence?
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Taking a melodic fragment and repeating it on different notes
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What is a motive?
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A short melodic or rhythmic idea
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