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Music Theory and
History: Key Terms
and Concepts in
Western Music |
Study Guide




Music Theory and History_ Key Terms
Music and
Theory
Concepts
and History_
in Western
Key Terms
Music
Music _and
Theory
Study
Concepts
and
Guide.pdf
History_
in Western
Key Terms
Music _and
Study
Concepts
Guide.pdf
in Western Music _ Study Guide.pdf

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Terms in this set (146)



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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