Conducting Vocabulary Builder 1: Elements of Music

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  1. 2. Manner in which the harmonic (vertical) and melodic (horizontal) elements are combined to create layers of sound
  2. 4. Series of chords sounding in succession; certain progressions are typical in particular styles/genres of music
  3. 5. Audible sounds and/or nonsense syllables used by vocalists to convey musical ideas or intent
  4. 7. Tone color or tone quality that distinguishes one sound source, instrument, or voice from another
  5. 12. Form of music that is subject to improvisation or structured randomness
  6. 14. Rate or speed of the beat in a musical work or performance
  7. 15. Musical texture in which two or more melodies sound simultaneously in either an imitative or non-imitative manner
  8. 17. Chordal structure of a music composition in which the simultaneous sounding of pitches produces chords and their successive use produces chord progressions
  9. 18. Music based on a mode other than major or minor
  10. 19. Grouping of beats and divisions of beats in music, grouping of beats and divisions of beats in music, often in sets of twos (duple meter) or threes (triple meter)
  11. 21. Relating to a seven-tone scale consisting of five whole steps and two half steps
  12. 23. Music in which two or more tonalities (keys) sound simultaneously
  13. 26. Representation of sound and its treatment using lines, drawings, pictures
  14. 27. Musical segment with a clear beginning and ending, comparable to a simple sentence or clause in written text
  15. 28. System for visually representing musical sound in time using a 5-line staff
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  1. 1. Qualities such as dynamics, tempo, articulation which -- when combined with other elements of music -- give a composition its musical identity
  2. 3. Musical texture consisting of an accompanied vocal line that is rhythmically free melodic line in a declamatory style, from which the recitative developed
  3. 6. Five-tone scale often identified with the pattern of the black keys of a keyboard, although other five-tone arrangements are possible
  4. 8. Performance of a musical phrase that uses expressive qualities such as dynamics, tempo, articulation, and timbre to convey a thought, mood, or feeling
  5. 9. To hear and comprehend musical sounds in one’s head (inner hearing), rather than from an external source
  6. 10. Underlying steady pulse present in most music
  7. 11. Musical texture in which all parts move in the same rhythm but use different pitches, as in hymns
  8. 13. Element of music describing the overall organization of a piece of music, such as AB, ABA, rondo, theme and variations, and strophic form
  9. 16. Grouping, generally brief, of long and short sounds and silences
  10. 19. Musical texture consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line
  11. 20. Rate in which harmony the rate in which harmony changes from one chord to the next
  12. 22. Shape of a melody created by the way its pitches repeat and move up and down in steps and skips
  13. 24. Music in which no tonic or key center is apparent
  14. 25. Tonic or key tone around which a piece of music is centered