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CHAPTER FOUR—HOW MUSIC WORKS, PART II: Pitch
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Chapters 4 Music Journal
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Your Name |
Huaimin Chen |
Chapter 4 Part 1: The Informative Contents
1. Define the following terms:
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Key Terms |
Definitions, Explanations, or Comments |
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Interval |
The distance in pitch between one note and another.
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Scale |
An ascending or descending series of notes of different pitch.
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Octave |
The phenomenon accounting for why the “same” pitch may occur in multiple – that is, higher and lower – versions.
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Range |
The different octave registers in which particular instruments and voices perform.
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Melody |
a series of notes arranged in order to form a musical unit, the "tune"
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Major Scale |
A common type of scale in Western music with seven pitches per octave.
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Key |
indicates the fundamental scale from which a piece of music is built.
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Minor scale |
the ascending and descending forms of a minor scale may use different sets of pitches.
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Pentatonic scale
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Found in many genres of music |
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Tonic |
Give rise to generator potentials
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Blues scale |
1, flat 3, 4, flat 5, 5, flat 7
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Modulation
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A shift of tonal center that takes place within an individual movement |
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Microtones
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Musical interval smaller than a semitone (half step), prevalent in some non-Western music and some twentieth-century music. |
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Ornamentation
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Decorations of the main notes
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Articulation
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a give tone or series of tones is played or sung
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Legato
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opposite of staccato. |
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Staccato
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Play the note briefly |
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Mode
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A comprehensive, multidimensional musical system
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Chord
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a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together |
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Harmony
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the result of two or more tones sounded at the same time |
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Harmonization
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procedure of building chords from the individual notes of a melody. |
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Chord progression
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The sequence of movement form on chord to another |
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Arpeggio
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A chord in which the pitches are performed in sequence rather than all at once. An arpeggio also may be referred to as a “broken chord”. |
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