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4 Properties of Sound - ANSWER-Pitch Volume Duration Tone Color 5 Elements of Music - ANSWER-Rhythm Pitch Design Expression Timbre Absolute Music - ANSWER-music for its own sake; music that is free of extra musical associations Art Music - ANSWER-music that is used for a specific purpose, created classical music Articulation - ANSWER-the scale in which notes are played, like symbols next to notes Beat - ANSWER-the pulse in music, the basic unit of time Cadence - ANSWER-a melodic or harmonic formula that gives a sense of phrase ending Cadenza - ANSWER-a solo passage in a piece, usually at the end Chord - ANSWER-harmonic set of usually three or more pitches that is heard as one Coda - ANSWER-a term and symbol that directs the music to a spot earlier in the score Concerto de Aranjuez, 2nd movement - ANSWER-Joaquin Rodrigo Consonance - ANSWER-a group of sounds that sound agreeable and restful Crescendo - ANSWER-a dynamic that gradually gets louder Decrescendo - ANSWER-a dynamic that gradually gets softer Dissonance - ANSWER-a combination of of tones generally accepted as being unrest and needing conclusion Dynamics - ANSWER-how quiet or loud the music is

Fanfare - ANSWER-introduction played in beginning of pieces, usually by brass instruments Farandole from L'Arlesienne - ANSWER-George Bizet Harmony - ANSWER-the simultaneous sounds of several pitches, usually accompanying a melody Homophonic - ANSWER-one melody line that is accompanied by chords Legato - ANSWER-a term in music that illustrates a smooth, flowing manner between notes Melody - ANSWER-a series of consecutive pitches that form a cohesive musical identity Meter - ANSWER-the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed beats Modulation - ANSWER-the process of changing from one key to another Monophonic - ANSWER-music that consist of a single part Music - ANSWER-a secession of tones arranged in a specific rhythm, as well as organized sound and silence in a specific time Musical Connotations - ANSWER-associations people make between music, and a set of personal or cultural events or experiences Polyphonic - ANSWER-two or more lines of equal importance played at the same time Polyrhythm - ANSWER-the use of concurrent contacting rhythms Repetition/variation/contrast - ANSWER-Repetition is the the repetitiveness of music, while variation and contrast is a difference in either rhythm or arrangement Rhythm - ANSWER-the flow of music in time (patterns of long and short sound silences) Scale - ANSWER-a series of pitches that proceeds upward or downward in a prescribed pattern, (ex. major/minor, chromatic, pentatonic, whole tone, etc.) Simple Gifts - ANSWER-Aaron Copland Staccato - ANSWER-a musical articulation that illustrates a note of shortened duration Star Wars - ANSWER-John Williams

Syncopation - ANSWER-a term that illustrates a change of the normal accent, by stressing the normally unaccented beats Tempo - ANSWER-the pace or speed at which the music is played Texture - ANSWER-how the melodic, rhythmic and harmonic are combined, establishing the kind of the sound Timbre - ANSWER-the tone color or tone quality, and the perceived sound quality of a note Unity and Variety - ANSWER-opposites; unity is the common arrangement while variety has no rhythm or balance Utility Music - ANSWER-music that is used for a specific purpose Vibrato - ANSWER-a pulsating change of pitch, a musical effect