IB Music Midterm

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Terminology and Theory

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Polyphony

Simultaneous voice parts with individual melody, creating harmony

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Cantus Firmus

Pre-existing melody, usually chant, sung in whole notes while other voices sing florid counterpoint

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Modes

Use of 4 church modes for composition (Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian) - eventually added Ionian, Aeolian

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Canon

A melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration. Strict imitation of one voice from another

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Soggetto Cavato

Cantus Firmus made from the vowels of special words

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Paraphrase

Work where all voices loosely imitate the Cantus Firmus. The Cantus Firmus is not sung completely, but merely referenced by all voices

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Imitation

A polyphonic musical texture in which a melodic idea is freely or strictly echoed by successive voices

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Counterpoint

The general practice of individual lines written against each other to create good harmony and texture. Independent, but coherent. May move with each other or in opposite directions

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Parody

Work that imitates other polyphonic work, copying multiple voices

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Meter

Rhythmic structure of the verse of a poetic work

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Foot

The 'measure' unit of a verse with a specific meter

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Prosody

The study of rhythm/sound in poetry

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Rhapsode

Professional, traveling performer of epic poetry

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Alliterative Verse

Rhyme/repetition of consonants/beginning sounds, 'rhyme scheme' of a verse is based on alliteration

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Bard

Royal Celtic poet/musician

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Blank Verse

Works (mostly plays) in unrhymed iambic pentameter (unstressed-stressed)

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Common Meter

Meter common to English poets and hymn-writers (4 lines alternating iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter)

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Rap

Verse with rhyme, rhythmic speech, and cadence

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Holorime

Complete rhyme of an entire line (same sounds different words)

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Double Entendre

Phrase with two meanings (one is usually funny or inappropriate)

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Bar

Verse or line in RAP

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Vocables

Syllables that do not have direct meaning

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Pentatonic

Anhemitonic (no semitones), 5 notes

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Tritonic

3 note scale from ancient Native American Music

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Scotch Snap

16th-dotted 8th rhythm

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Cut

Most common in American folk, higher pitch grace note before the principle note

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Tap

higher pitch grace note before the principle note

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Mountain Dulcimer

A type of musical instrument, fretted and from the zither family

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Banjo

African in origin; fretless

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Bluegrass

Type of American folk music

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Blue Note

note outside the pentatonic scale

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Blues Scale

A minor pentatonic scale with a flatted 5th

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12-bar Blues

A chord progression that lasts 12 bars and typically uses three chords (usually I IV and V)

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Types of Triads

Major, minor, augmented, diminished

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Types of 7th Seventh Chords

MM, Mm, mm, mM, half-dim., full dim.

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Order of Flats

BEADGCF

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Order of Sharps

FCGDAEB

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Half Steps in a Major 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, and Octave

2, 4, 9, 11 and 12

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Half Steps in perfect unison, 4th, and 5th

0, 5, and 7

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Augmented Triad

Major or Perfect +1 half step

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Minor Triad

Major -1 half step

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Diminished Triad

Major -2, Perfect -1 Half Step

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What is on the outer circle of the Circle of 5ths

Major Keys

<p>Major Keys</p>
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What is in the inner circle of the Circle of 5ths

Minor Keys

<p>Minor Keys </p>
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<p>What interval is this?</p>

What interval is this?

P4

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<p>What interval is this?</p>

What interval is this?

d5

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<p>What interval is this?</p>

What interval is this?

d4

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<p>What interval is this?</p>

What interval is this?

m7

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<p>What interval is this?</p>

What interval is this?

m2

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<p>What interval is this?</p>

What interval is this?

M7

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<p>ID this Chord</p>

ID this Chord

B M, 1st inv.

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<p>ID this Chord</p>

ID this Chord

C m, 1st inv.

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<p>ID this Chord</p>

ID this Chord

G mM 7th, 2nd inv.

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<p>ID this Chord</p>

ID this Chord

A mm 7th, 3rd inv.

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<p>ID this Chord</p>

ID this Chord

B mM 7th, root

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<p>ID this Chord</p>

ID this Chord

B MM 7th, root

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