Music Appreciation Final

Final for Music Appreciation

35 cards   |   Total Attempts: 182
  

Cards In This Set

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Rhythm
The surface activity of music, based upon duration of musical sounds
Beat
The underlying pulse of music
Tempo
Refers to the rate of speed of beats
Metronome
A mechanical device used to give precise speeds of beats
Meter
The organization of beats into groups or patterns
Measure
The length of a pattern (meter) of beats
Bar Lines
The vertical lines that show where beat patterns begin and end
Nonmetric
Refers to music that has no strong sense of beat or meter
Syncopation
The stressing of normally unstressed beats
Melody
The succession of single pitches
Interval
The distance between two pitches
Melodic Structure
Melodies often mirrors linguistic structure where phrases combine to create sentences
Melodic Structure
Melodies often mirror linguistic structure, where phrases combine to create sentences
Phrase
A more or less incomplete melodic idea that ends with a cadence
Cadence
A resting point in music that occurs at the end of phrases