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| 18052671 | Melody | line, or tune, in music, a concept that is shared by most cultures | 0 | |
| 18052672 | Contour | how the melody moves up and down | 1 | |
| 18052673 | Range | span of the pitches | 2 | |
| 18052674 | Interval | distance between any two pitches in a melody | 3 | |
| 18052675 | Conjunct | small connected interval | 4 | |
| 18052676 | Disjunt | an interval that leaps | 5 | |
| 18052677 | Phrases | units that make up a melody | 6 | |
| 18052678 | Cadences | resting places | 7 | |
| 18052679 | Countermelody | secondary melody | 8 | |
| 18052680 | Rhythm | what moves the music forward in time | 9 | |
| 18052992 | Meter | organizes the beats in music | 10 | |
| 18052993 | Downbeat | the strongest beat in a measure, often the first beat | 11 | |
| 18052994 | Simple meters | duple, triple, and quadruple | 12 | |
| 18052995 | Compound meters | subdivide each beat into three, rather than two, subbeats | 13 | |
| 18052996 | Harmony | simultaneous events in music | 14 | |
| 18052997 | Upbeat | the last beat of the measure | 15 | |
| 18052998 | Syncopation | deliberate upsetting of the normal pattern of accentuation | 16 | |
| 18052999 | Offbeat | when the accent is shifted to a weak beat | 17 | |
| 18053000 | Additive meter | grouping of irregular numbers of beats that add up to a larger overall pattern | 18 | |
| 18053001 | Polyrhythm | simultaneous use of rhythmic patterns that conflict with the underlying beat | 19 | |
| 18053002 | Chord | simultaneous sounding of three or more pitches | 20 | |
| 18053003 | Scale | sequence of pitches | 21 | |
| 18053004 | Triad | most common chord in Western music; three notes built on alternate pitches of a scale | 22 | |
| 18053005 | Tonic | central tone around which a melody and its harmonies are built -tonality | 23 | |
| 18053006 | Dissonance | created by an unstable, or discordant, harmony | 24 | |
| 18053007 | Consonance | occurs with resolution of dissonance, producing a concordant sound | 25 | |
| 18053008 | Drone | single sustained tone which constitutes the harmony | 26 | |
| 18071218 | Texture | the interweaving of the melodic lines with harmony in music | 27 | |
| 18071219 | Monophony | single-voiced music without accompaniment | 28 | |
| 18071220 | Heterophony | multiple voices elaborating the same melody at the same time | 29 | |
| 18071221 | Polyphony | many-voiced texture based on counterpoint | 30 | |
| 18071222 | Counterpoint | one line set against another | 31 | |
| 18071223 | Homophony | occurs when one melodic voice is prominent over the accompanying lines, or voices | 32 | |
| 18071224 | Homorhythmic texture | homophonic sound in which all the voices move in the same rhythm | 33 | |
| 18071225 | Imitation | when a melodic idea is presented in one voice, then restated in another (cannons and rounds) | 34 | |
| 18071226 | Form | organizing principle in music- basic elements include repetition, contrast, and variation | 35 | |
| 18071227 | Strophic form | common in songs, features repeated music for each stanza of text | 36 | |
| 18071228 | Improvisation | music created spontaneously in performance | 37 | |
| 18071229 | Binary form | A-B | 38 | |
| 18071230 | Ternary form | A-B-A | 39 | |
| 18071231 | Theme | melodic idea used as a building block in a large-scale work | 40 | |
| 18071232 | Motives | small component fragments of the theme | 41 | |
| 18071233 | Sequence | results when a motive is repeated at a different pitch | 42 | |
| 18071234 | Call-and-response | repetitive style involving a soloist and a group | 43 | |
| 18071235 | Ostinato | repetition of a short musical melodic, rhythmic, or harmonic pattern | 44 | |
| 18071236 | Movements | the sections that large-scale compositions, such as symphonies and sonatas, are divided into | 45 | |
| 18071237 | Tempo | rate of speed, or pace, of the music | 46 | |
| 18071238 | Allegro | fast pace | 47 | |
| 18071239 | Moderato | moderate pace | 48 | |
| 18071240 | Adagio | quite slow pace | 49 | |
| 18071241 | Accelerando | speeding up the pace | 50 | |
| 18071242 | Ritardando | slowing the pace | 51 | |
| 18071243 | Metronome | device that indicates the tempo by sounding a pulse | 52 | |
| 18071244 | Dynamics | describe the volume of the music | 53 | |
| 18071245 | Forte (f) | loud sound | 54 | |
| 18071246 | Piano (p) | soft sound | 55 | |
| 18071247 | Timbre | tone color | 56 | |
| 18071248 | Instrument | generates vibrations and transmits them into the air | 57 | |
| 18071249 | Soprano | high female voice | 58 | |
| 18071250 | Alto | low female voice | 59 | |
| 18071251 | Tenor | high male voice | 60 | |
| 18071252 | Bass | low male voice | 61 | |
| 18071253 | Vibrato | throbbing effect | 62 | |
| 18071254 | Staccato | short detached notes | 63 | |
| 18071255 | Legato | smoothly connected notes | 64 | |
| 18071321 | a cappella | choral groups with no accompaniment | 65 | |
| 18071322 | Chamber music | ensemble music for small groups, with one player per part | 66 | |
| 18071323 | Orchestra | eighty to one hundred instrument ensemble | 67 | |
| 18071324 | String section | first violins, second violins, violas, cellos, double basses | 68 | |
| 18071325 | Woodwind section | flutes, oboes, English horn, clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon, double bassoon | 69 | |
| 18071522 | Brass section | French horn, trumpets, trombones, tuba | 70 | |
| 18071523 | Percussion section | drums, piano | 71 | |
| 18071524 | Sacred music | music for religious functions | 72 | |
| 18071525 | Secular music | music for non-religious functions | 73 | |
| 18071526 | Oral transmission | transmission of music without the aid of written notation | 74 |
