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What is the melody?
A main part of music, usually the part you leave remembering. Often moves by single notes and small skips.
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What is form?
How music is organized-common terms used such as verse and chorus.
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What is Like the Wind?
This piece was commissioned by the Wisconsin Arts board for their 50th anniversary.
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What is C Major?
Key Signature that has no sharps or flats.
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What is F major.
The key signature with 1 flat.
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What is monophony or monophonic?
A single line of unaccompanied music, can be in octaves, is referred to as this type of tecture.
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What are dynamics?
This can increase decibels but does not affect intensity.
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What is Sudan/ Sudanese?
Famine Song is written about what country/ people during the Famine of 1980's?
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Treble: What is Every good boy does fine (or equivalent) and face in the space? Bass: Go Buy donuts for Arnold and All Cows eat grass?
This is the mnemonic device for remembering the lines and spaces in both clefs.
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What is a descant?
A type of harmony that is over the top of the melody line.
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What is a drone?
A constant note, often on the bottom, used to create harmony and to ground a tonal center.
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What is Polyphony?
Rising Storm and the End of Omnia Sol contain this type of texture?
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What is O Magnum Mysterium?
The piece that translates into Great Mystery.
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What are: 1. Count
2. Figure out last 3. Go up half a step in the alphabet
The steps to figure out Sharp Keys- including order of Sharps.
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What is Homophony?
All Taylor Swift Songs are this texture.
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What is an interval?
The space between 2 notes
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What is rhythm?
How long or short a note is.
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What is Omnia Sol
This piece is based off of text from Carmina Burana.
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What are: 1. Count
2. Figure out last 3. Go back one space.
The steps to figure out Flat Keys- including order of flats.
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What is Harmony?
Ostinato, Intervallic, Partner Songs, Round are all ways to create this.
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What is a Key Signature?
This indicates where your tonal center is- using sharps and flats.
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What is timbre?
Harsh, reedy, brassy, bright, and dull are all words to describe a sounds what?
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What is Jai Bhavani?
This piece in written in the form of a raga.
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What is the top number tells us how many beats in the measure and the bottom tells us what determines the beat?
This is the function of both numbers in a time signature.
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What are melody, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, form, timbre and texture?
The 7 elements of music.
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