APM Final Exam 2023 with 100% correct answers

timbre - the quality of a sound; its tone color - this helps explain the identity of a sound syncopation - the setting of a melody or rhythm that emphasizes the upbeats, weak beats, or off beats - it was critical to the emergence of ragtime, where you hear it prominently strophic - a form that looks like AAA - it's often a ballad with a series of verses having the same music repeating each new verse riff - a short musical idea or motive sometimes repeated to generate rhythmic momentum ostinato - considerably longer than a riff - a constantly repeating melodic or rhythmic phrase - it never stops monophony - a simple texture; it's one voice meter - how the beats or pulses are organized in a song - pulses are usually divided into groups of twos or threes (duple groups or triple groups) homophony - the most common texture for American popular music - this texture consists of one melody plus musical accompaniment ballad - a song, often in strophic form, that tells a history or a story in its poetic lyrics AABA - the most common form for American popular music - verses one and two use the same melody, followed by a chorus or refrain which introduces a new melody, and then a third verse uses the same melody as the first two verses 12-bar blues - a musical genre and form characterized by a progression of just three chords within a cyclical melodic-rhythmic structure - songs often have an AABA text pattern comprised of couplets