Conducting Vocabulary Builder 1: Elements of Music

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