Music Appreciation Exam 1

Music vocab for exam 1.

30 cards   |   Total Attempts: 191
  

Cards In This Set

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Pitch
Relative highness/lowness
Tone
Sound that has a definite pitch
Interval
"Distance" in pitch between any 2 notes
Dynamics
Loudness/Soffness
Pianissimo
Very SoftPP
Piano
SoftP
Mezzo Piano
Moderately softMP
Mezzo Forte
Moderately loudMF
Forte
LoudF
Fortissimo
Very loudFF
Timbre
Quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument/voice from another.
Pizzicato
Means of playing a string instrument by which the strings are plucked
Beat
Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time
Meter
Organization of beats into regular groups
Synchopation
Accenting of a note at an unexpected time as between two beats