Music Quiz 1

Staff

Five lines and four spaces on which music notes are written

What makes up a melody

Contour, range, and motion between notes.

Contour

Shape of the melody (ascending, descending, and wave)

Range

Lowest to highest note

Motion between notes

Conjunct: Stepwise motion

Disjunct: Skips and leaps

Phrase

Melodic lines, musical sentences

Cadence

End of phrase, similar to punctuation

Counter Melody

Secondary melody

Intervals

The space between two notes

Beat

Pulse of music

Measure

The space between two bar lines, it contains a fixed number of beats.

Downbeat

First beat of a measure

Upbeat

Last beat of a measure

Meter

How beats are grouped together

Duple

2 beats per measure

Triple

3 beats per measure

Quadruple

4 beats per measure

Simple

Each beat is broken into two equal parts

Compound

Each beat is broken into three equal parts

Syncopation

Emphasis on the offbeats of a measure

Harmony

Support structure for a melody

Chord

A group of two or more notes played simultaneously

Triad

Specific type of chord consisting of three alternating pitches

Octave

A group of 8 consecutive pitches

Tonic

The first note in a scale, the note that serves as the home or center of a key

Consonance

Notes that blend well together

Dissonance

Notes that do not blend together

Drone

A repeated note usually found in a bass line