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Pitch Highness or lowness of a note
Tone color or timbre The distinct sound quality of a musical instrument
Cadences Resting places at the end of phrases
Countermelody A secondary melody that accompanies a melody
Rhythm The movement of music in time
Beat A regular pulse in music
Meter A pattern of stressed and unstressed beats
Dissonance An unstable, or discordant, combination of pitches
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Consonance Occurs with the resolution of dissonance, producing a stable or restful
sound
Key Defines the pitches related to a common center, or tonic
Chromatic A work in which notes foreign to the diatonic scale are used
Monophony A single voice
Polyphony A texture in which two or more different melodic lines are combined.
Homophony A single voice with the accompanying lines becoming blocks of harmony.
Strophic form The same melody is repeated with each stanza of the text.
Through-composed No main section of the music or text is repeated.
Theme A melodic idea used as a building block in the construction of a larger work.
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