Music Appretiation Test One

For a test

56 cards   |   Total Attempts: 188
  

Related Topics

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Melody
Line or tune in music
Contour
What makes melody unique, how it moves up and down in pitches
Range
Span of pitches in a melody
Interval
Distance between any two pitches in a melody
Conjunct / disjunct
Conjunct - melody that moves in small intervals,
disjunct - melody that moves in leaps
Phrases
Units that make up a melody
Cadences
Resting places where phrases end
Countermelody
Secondary melody
Rhythm
What makes move forward in time
Meter
Marked off in measures, organizes the beats in music
Beat
Basic unit of rythm
Downbeat
The first accented beat of each pattern
Duplemeter, triple meter, quadruple meter
Alternates a strong down beat with a weak beat, three beats to a measre - one strong beat and two weak ones, four beats to a measure - primary measure on the first beat and a secondary measure on the third
Simple meters
Meter has doule subdivisions
Compound meters
Some patterns the beat is divided into three, sextouplemeter