Across
- 3. a chord that has four pitches stacked in intervals of thirds
- 5. the smallest musical unit of a melody, generally a single rhythm of two or three pitches
- 6. the variation in the volume of musical sound (the amplitude of the sound waves)
- 8. musical texture comprised of one melodic line accompanied by chords
- 10. an electronic device that displays a visual representation of the different types of sound waves
- 14. musical pitches which move up or down by successive half-steps
- 20. a medieval music theorist who developed a system of lines and spaces that enabled musicians to notate the specific notes in a melody
- 26. a disorganized sound with no observable pitch
- 27. the instruments comprising a musical group (including the human voice)
- 30. electronic instruments (often in keyboard form) that create sounds using basic wave forms in different combinations
- 32. the set of pitches on which a composition is based
- 33. the speed at which the beat is played
- 34. Progression a series of chords
- 37. instruments whose sound is produced by setting strings in motion
- 38. the way the music is organized in respect to time
- 39. how quickly or slowly a medium (solid, liquid, gas) vibrates and produces a sound
- 40. a twelve-bar musical form commonly found in American music
- 43. the mechanical movement of an audible pressure wave through a solid, liquid, or gas
- 44. the simultaneous sounding of three or more pitches; like intervals, chords can be consonant or dissonant
- 46. the distance between two musical pitches where the higher pitch vibrates exactly twice as many times per second as the lower
- 48. musical texture that simultaneously features two or more relatively independent and important melodic lines
- 51. a melody that moves mostly by step, in a smooth manner
- 52. refers to how high the wave form appears to vibrate above zero when seen on an oscilloscope; louder sounds create higher oscilloscope amplitude readings
- 53. intervals and chords that tend to sound harsh to our ears; dissonance, is often used to create tension and instability, and the interplay between dissonance and consonance provides a sense of harmonic and melodic motion in music
- 55. per Second (cps) – a definition of frequency of vibration; replaced by Hertz in 1960
- 56. instruments that are typically hit or struck by the hand, with sticks, or with hammers or that are shaken or rubbed by hand
- 57. the simplest sound wave that occurs in nature. A pure sine wave contains no partials and is perfectly smooth and rounded in appearance on an oscilloscope.
- 59. musical texture comprised of one melodic line; a melodic line may be sung by one person or 100 people
- 60. the way in which the beats are grouped together in a piece
- 61. the ways in which musical lines of a musical piece interact
- 64. the process of raising or lowering different frequencies of sound, either in a recording, or within a tone (overtones)
- 65. the structure of the phrases and sections within a musical composition (Does it repeat?)
- 66. (adjective) term used to describe intervals and chords that tend to sound sweet and pleasing to our ears; consonance (noun), as opposed to dissonance, is stable and needs no resolution.
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- 1. a series of pitches, ordered by the interval between its notes
- 2. the process whereby musicians create music spontaneously using the elements of music as building blocks
- 4. instruments that are characterized by keyboards, such as the piano, organ, vibraphone, and accordion
- 7. the process whereby a musician notates musical ideas using a system of symbols or using some other form of recording
- 9. sound and silence organized in time
- 11. instruments traditionally made of brass or another metal (and thus often producing a “bright” or “brassy” tone) whose sound is generated by blowing into a mouthpiece that is attached to a coiled tube
- 12. a chord that has three pitches stacked in intervals of thirds
- 13. the numeric notation at the beginning of a line of music where the top number indicates how many beats are in each measure and the bottom number indicates which type of note will represent that beat
- 15. the unit of frequency defined as one cycle per second
- 16. any simultaneous combination of tones and the rules governing those combinations (the way a melody is accompanied is also another way to define harmony)
- 17. a tone that is composed of an organized sound wave
- 18. longitudinal waves (compression and rarefaction waves) that travel through a solid, liquid, or gas
- 19. Engineer a person who works in the area of acoustic technology
- 21. the number of pitches, expressed as an intervallic distance
- 22. a musical tone heard above a fundamental pitch
- 23. the distance between adjacent notes in a musical scale
- 24. a succession of single tones in musical compositions
- 25. the lowest pitch in the harmonic series
- 27. the distance in pitch between any two notes
- 28. smaller sub-sections of a melody
- 29. the tone color or tone quality of a sound
- 31. a melody with wide leaps and rapid changes in direction
- 35. the sounds of different frequency that naturally occur above a fundamental (primary) tone
- 36. a repetition of a motive or phrase at a different pitch level
- 37. the act of shifting the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented weak beats or placing the accent between the beats themselves
- 41. instruments traditionally made of wood whose sound is generated by forcing air through a tube, thus creating a vibrating air column
- 42. having to do with the human voice
- 45. two or more different rhythms played at the same time
- 47. the study of how sound behaves in physical spaces
- 49. notes that are not normally found in a given key
- 50. a person who studies the theory and science of acoustics
- 54. the low, medium, and high sections of an instrument or vocal range
- 58. a unit of time that contains a specific number of beats defined by the meter/ time signature
- 62. the basic unit of time in music
- 63. the most important pitch of a key; the note from which the other pitches are derived