Vocabulary
articulation |
There are many types of articulation, each with a different effect on how the note is played. In music notation articulation marks include the slur, phrase mark, staccato, staccatissimo, accent, sforzando, rinforzando, and legato. A different symbol, placed above or below the note (depending on its position on the staff), represents each articulation.
|
beat |
|
chord
|
|
composer |
A composer (Latin com+ponere, literally "one who puts together") is a person who createsmusic, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct arranging, recording and processing of sonic material. A PERSON WHO WRITES MUSIC.
|
conductor |
The person who leads a group of musicians. He/She helps he players start and stop together. He sets the tempo and regulates the dynamics, and understands the instruments and blends their sounds to achieve proper balance. A conductor may use a baton or stick to direct the musicians.
|
crescendo |
Gradually becoming louder |
decrescendo |
Gradually becoming softer |
dynamics
|
The two basic dynamic indications in music are: More subtle degrees of loudness or softness are indicated by:
|
form
|
The term musical form (or musical architecture) refers to the overall structure or plan of a piece of music,[1] and it describes the layout of a composition as divided into sections. THE OVERALL PLAN OF A PIECE OF MUSIC.
|
homophony
|
Homophony is a texture in which two or moreparts move together in harmony, the relationship between them creating chords. This is distinct frompolyphony, in which parts move with rhythmic independence, and monophony, in which all parts (if there are multiple parts) move in parallel rhythm and pitch. A homophonic texture is also homorhythmic[1] (or uses a "very similar rhythm").[2
|
melody
|
A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"),[1] also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm, while more figuratively, the term can include successions of other musical elements such astonal color. It may be considered the foreground to the background accompaniment. A SERIES OF SINGLE TONES THAT MOVE UP OR DOWN OR STAY THE SAME. |
meter |
Meter or metre is the rhythmic structure of music.
The term was inherited from poetry (Scholes 1977 Latham 2002b) where it denotes: the number of lines in a verse; the number of syllables in each line; and the arrangement of those syllables as long or short, accented or unaccented (Scholes 1977; Latham 2002b). Likewise, in music, the term refers to the pattern of accents in the piece of music and to its possible organization into regularly recurring measures of stressed and unstressedbeats. THE WAY BEATS OF MUSIC ARE GROUPED, OFTEN IN SETS OF TWO OR THREE. |
pitch |
PITCH: The highness or lowness of a tone |
phrase |
A musical phrase (Greek: φράση "sentence, expression"; see alsostrophe) is a unit of musical meter that has a complete musical sense of its own,[3] built from figures, motifs, and cells and combining to formmelodies, periods and larger sections;[4] or the length in which a singer or instrumentalist can play in one breath.
|
rhythm |
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry" (Liddell and Scott 1996)) generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions" (Anon. 1971, 2537). A regular recurrence or pattern in time. |
staccato |
Staccato (Italian for "detached") is a form of musical articulation. In modern notation it signifies a note of shortened duration,[1][2] separated from the note that may follow by silence.[3] It has been described by theorists and appeared in music since the 18th century.
|
syncopate |
In music, syncopation involves a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected which make part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat. More simply, syncopation is a general term for "a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm": a "placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn't normally occur."[1]
|
tempo |
The tempo of a piece will typically be written at the start of a piece of music, and in modern Western music is usually indicated in beats per minute (BPM). This means that a particular note value (for example, a quarter note or crotchet) is specified as the beat, and that the amount of time between successive beats is a specified fraction of a minute. The greater the number of beats per minute, the smaller the amount of time between successive beats, and thus faster a piece must be played. For example, a tempo of 60 beats per minute signifies one beat per second. THE SPEED OF THE MUSC (HOW FAST OR HOW SLOW)
|
timbre |
In music, timbre (/ˈtæmbər/ tam-bər or /ˈtɪmbər/ tim-bər) also known as tone color ortone quality from psychoacoustics, is the quality of a musical note or sound or tone that distinguishes different types of sound production, such as voices and musical instruments, string instruments, wind instruments, and percussion instruments. The physical characteristics of sound that determine the perception of timbre includespectrum and envelope.
In simple terms, timbre is what makes a particular musical sound different from another, even when they have the same pitch and loudness. For instance, it is the difference between a guitar and a piano playing the same note at the same loudness. Experienced musicians are able to distinguish between different instruments based on their varied timbres, even if those instruments are playing notes at the same pitchand loudness. THE QUALITY OF THE SOUND OF A GIVEN INSTRUMENT OR VOICE. FOR INSTANCE, A NOTE OR PITCH PLAYED ON A FLUTE WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT SOUND OR TIMBER THAN A NOTE PLAYED ON A VIOLIN. |