SDSU Music 151 - Dr. B - Exam 1 Q&A
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what is the reason for music? what does it do for us? - ✔✔It heightens our
emotions
Why is music such an integral of our culture? - ✔✔It's everywhere around
us, from the time we wake up to when we fall asleep
Pitch and Melody? - ✔✔Pitch: it is the highest or lowness of musical
sounds Melody: its the tune, the thing we hum, or whistle or sing
interval and chord - ✔✔Interval: the distance between two pitches chord:
two or more pitches sounding together at the same time
words to describe melodies - ✔✔1. range 2. shape 3.conjunct: melodies
that have smaller intervals and that feel more connected together, more
naturally flowing 4. disjunct: melodies that have larger or more
disconnected intervals, less naturally flowing
Musical Phrase - ✔✔a unit of musical within a larger structure, often
coinciding with the words
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, cadence and tonic - ✔✔Cadence: a resting place or sense of finality, which
punctuates the music, just like commas/ periods in a sentence, you taking
breaths Tonic: the home note, we get back to tonic at the end of every
piece of music as our resting place
Rhythm and meter - ✔✔Rhythm: the length or duration of musical
pitches(the beat or pulse of music) meter: the organization of strong and
weak beats in music
Types of metrical patterns - ✔✔duple meter: a feeling of two(marching,
walking) triple meter: a feeling of three( dances, drinking songs) Quadruple
meter: a feeling of four
Harmony - ✔✔the movement and relationships of intervals and chords( it's
the simultaneous "happenings" in music
major and minor key - ✔✔major key: happy,bright minor key: sad, subdued
Texture: monophony and polyphony - ✔✔monophony: refers to music that
is simply one voice( like the violin part or the trumpet part, not necessarily
refers to human voice) polyphony: refers to music that has multiple "voices"
or musical lines
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what is the reason for music? what does it do for us? - ✔✔It heightens our
emotions
Why is music such an integral of our culture? - ✔✔It's everywhere around
us, from the time we wake up to when we fall asleep
Pitch and Melody? - ✔✔Pitch: it is the highest or lowness of musical
sounds Melody: its the tune, the thing we hum, or whistle or sing
interval and chord - ✔✔Interval: the distance between two pitches chord:
two or more pitches sounding together at the same time
words to describe melodies - ✔✔1. range 2. shape 3.conjunct: melodies
that have smaller intervals and that feel more connected together, more
naturally flowing 4. disjunct: melodies that have larger or more
disconnected intervals, less naturally flowing
Musical Phrase - ✔✔a unit of musical within a larger structure, often
coinciding with the words
1
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
, cadence and tonic - ✔✔Cadence: a resting place or sense of finality, which
punctuates the music, just like commas/ periods in a sentence, you taking
breaths Tonic: the home note, we get back to tonic at the end of every
piece of music as our resting place
Rhythm and meter - ✔✔Rhythm: the length or duration of musical
pitches(the beat or pulse of music) meter: the organization of strong and
weak beats in music
Types of metrical patterns - ✔✔duple meter: a feeling of two(marching,
walking) triple meter: a feeling of three( dances, drinking songs) Quadruple
meter: a feeling of four
Harmony - ✔✔the movement and relationships of intervals and chords( it's
the simultaneous "happenings" in music
major and minor key - ✔✔major key: happy,bright minor key: sad, subdued
Texture: monophony and polyphony - ✔✔monophony: refers to music that
is simply one voice( like the violin part or the trumpet part, not necessarily
refers to human voice) polyphony: refers to music that has multiple "voices"
or musical lines
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©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
