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                                Huaimin Chen                                                                                              

Key Terms

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Interval

 The distance in pitch between one note and another.

Scale

 An ascending or descending series of notes of different pitch.

Octave

 The phenomenon accounting for why the “same” pitch may occur in multiple – that is, higher and lower – versions.

Range

 The different octave registers in which particular instruments and voices perform.

Melody

 a series of notes arranged in order to form a musical unit, the "tune"

Major Scale

 A common type of scale in Western music with seven pitches per octave.

Key

indicates the fundamental scale from which a piece of music is built.

Minor scale

the ascending and descending forms of a minor scale may use different sets of pitches.

Pentatonic scale

 Found in many genres of music

Tonic

 Give rise to generator potentials

Blues scale

 1, flat 3, 4, flat 5, 5, flat 7

Modulation

 A shift of tonal center that takes place within an individual movement

Microtones

 Musical interval smaller than a semitone (half step), prevalent in some non-Western music and some twentieth-century music.

Ornamentation

 Decorations of the main notes

Articulation

a give tone or series of tones is played or sung

Legato

 opposite of staccato.

Staccato

 Play the note briefly

Mode

 A comprehensive, multidimensional musical system

Chord

 a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together

Harmony

 the result of two or more tones sounded at the same time

Harmonization

procedure of building chords from the individual notes of a melody.

Chord progression

 The sequence of movement form on chord to another

Arpeggio

 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”.

What, in this chapter, was new to me?

 Scale, melody, mode

What, in this chapter, would I like to know more about?

 Blues scale, there is a lot of different scales.

Listen to all of the music examples and the online Musical Illustrations from Chapter 4 and in the Annenberg video. Which of these did you enjoy the most? Why?

 Annenberg video because it provides realistic melody

Of the musical examples and the online Musical Illustrations in this chapter, and the music from the Annenberg video, which did you find to be challenging to listen to? Why? 

 Online musical form.

I cannot see other people’s thoughts

Other thoughts or comments about Chapter 4, the online Musical Illustrations, and the Annenberg video on Melody.

 No.