Vocal Music Advanced

Baseline

  1. A perfect or minor interval that is made a half-step smaller
  2. Augmented Interval
  3. Diminished Interval
  4. Chromatic Interval
  5. An perfect or Major interval that is made a half step larger
  6. Augmented Interval
  7. Diminished Interval
  8. Chromatic Interval
  9. A scale that uses all 12 tones within an octave
  10. Chromatic Scale
  11. Major Scale
  12. Minor Scale
  13. Moving in half-steps
  14. Augmented
  15. Diminished
  16. Chromatic
  17. Produced when a combination of notes give the feeling of rest.
  18. Consonance
  19. Dissonance
  20. Diatonic
  21. A harmonious or satisfying arrangement of a piece.
  22. Balance
  23. Diatonic
  24. Augmented
  25. Within the whole and half tone system of major and minor scales
  26. Chromatic
  27. Diatonic
  28. Enharmonic
  29. A pattern of pitches arranged by whole steps and half steps
  30. Enharmonic
  31. Chromatic
  32. Scale
  33. A combination of two or more tones that create tension and must be "resolved" with standard chords (ones that are expected or pleasant to the ear)
  34. Consonance
  35. Dissonance
  36. Diatonic
  37. The first tone of a chord or scale.
  38. Octave
  39. Tonic
  40. Diatonic
  41. The distance from one pitch to the same letter name; 12 half steps or 8 notes apart
  42. Octave
  43. Tonic
  44. Diatonic
  1. A symbol (8va) that, placed above a pitch, directs that it be performed an octave higher than written.
  2. Articulation Marking
  3. Ottava Sign
  4. Tonic
  5. The combination or mixing of voices so that no single voice is distinguishable from the group sound
  6. blend
  7. trio
  8. Sextet
  9. The ability to direct the breathing mechanism to provide a well regulated supply of air to the vocal chords
  10. placement
  11. Breath control
  12. resonance
  13. A song that can be sung independently, but fits well when sung with another song, and creates pleasant harmony
  14. Nonet
  15. Trio
  16. Partner-Song
  17. The degree of clarity and distinctness of pronunciation and articulation in singing
  18. Diction
  19. Blend
  20. Tutti
  21. To create music spontaneously
  22. Improvise
  23. arrange
  24. compose
  25. Three performers, performing three different parts
  26. Nonet
  27. Trio
  28. Sextet
  29. A collection of music that the student has learned and is prepared to demonstrate
  30. Aria
  31. Ballad
  32. Repertoire
  33. The historical period in Western Europe from 1400 – 1600 known as a period of re-birth
  34. Medieval Period
  35. Renaissance Period
  36. Classical Period
  37. Musical period in Western history from 500 – 1400
  38. Medieval Period
  39. Renaissance Period
  40. Classical Period
  41. The historic period in music approximately between 1600 and 1750. The music of the this period tended to be highly ornamented and sometimes elaborate
  42. Classical Period
  43. Baroque Period
  44. Romantic Period
  45. The musical period in Western history beginning around 1750 and ending around 1820
  46. Classical Period
  47. Baroque Period
  48. Romantic Period
  49. The musical period in Western Music beginning in the 1900’s until today
  50. Classical Period
  51. Contemporary Period
  52. Romantic Period
  53. The historical period in Western Music from 1830 to 1920
  54. Classical Period
  55. Contemporary Period
  56. Romantic Period
  57. A note that receives a quarter beat of sound in 4/4 time
  58. Cut Time
  59. Sixteenth Note
  60. Sixteenth Rest
  61. A rest that receive a quarter beat of silence in 4/4 time
  62. Cut Time
  63. Sixteenth Note
  64. Sixteenth Rest
  65. An alternative way of identifying a time signature representing 2 beats in a measure where the half note receives the beat
  66. Cut Time
  67. Down Beat
  68. Anacrusis
  69. Beat one of a measure
  70. Anacrusis
  71. Down Beat
  72. Hemiola
  73. An upbeat or pickup
  74. Anacrusis
  75. Down Beat
  76. Hemiola
  77. The change of rhythmic feeling within a composition. The relationship usually is 3 to 2
  78. Anacrusis
  79. Down Beat
  80. Hemiola
  81. The musical style in which a pair of eighth notes is no longer performed evenly, but instead like a triplet.
  82. Swing
  83. Waltz
  84. Canon
  85. "Between beats" where the emphasis does not fall on the expected beat of 1, 2, 3, or 4, but between them. Characteristic of jazz and some rock music
  86. Cut time
  87. Hemiola
  88. Syncopation
  89. A dance in moderate ¾ time
  90. Swing
  91. Waltz
  92. Canon
  1. Three part form ABA
  2. Binary
  3. Ternary
  4. Canon
  5. The term used for the way the parts of a piece of music are assembled. (verse/refrain; ABA; Rondo; mass; symphony, etc.)
  6. Divisi
  7. Form
  8. Ternary
  9. When one group (or leader) "calls" and the other group "responds", usually by echoing what the first did it
  10. Call and Response
  11. Parallel Motion
  12. Contrary Motion
  13. The strictest form of musical imitation, where one part begins, and the other part begins later the exact same line (much like a ROUND)
  14. Binary
  15. Ternary
  16. Canon
  17. A form in music consisting of two parts
  18. Binary
  19. Ternary
  20. Canon
  21. Movement of two parts when the interval separating them remains the same
  22. Call and Response
  23. Contrary Motion
  24. Parallel Motion
  25. Two melodies of musical lines going in opposite directions
  26. Call and Response
  27. Contrary Motion
  28. Parallel Motion
  29. Directions to a performer typically through symbols and icons on a musicalscore that indicate characteristics of the attack, duration, and decay (or envelope) of a given note
  30. Hemiola
  31. Divisi
  32. Articulation Markings
  33. Indicates that a large group is divided into two smaller groups.
  34. Binary
  35. Divisi
  36. Ternary
  37. Changing a phrase or composition to a key other than the one in which the piece in which the piece is written
  38. transpose
  39. Texture
  40. Call and response
  41. The "thickness" of harmony (how many interwoven parts)
  42. Binary
  43. Ternary
  44. Texture
  1. A symbol that looks like an archer's bow (also called curved brackets) that are used to connect two or more different staves in a musical score into a system
  2. Articulation Marking
  3. Hemiola
  4. Brace
  5. An obbligato part, or second melody, that is above the main melody
  6. Call and response
  7. Divisi
  8. Descant
  9. The ability of a person to identify a musical sound by name without any previous pitch being sounded; also called perfect pitch
  10. Articulation
  11. Absolute Pitch
  12. Texture
  13. The character or quality of a sound that distinguishes one voice from another
  14. Timbre
  15. Descant
  16. Canon
  17. Unique qualities that characterize and identify the variety of types of music available (country, classical, jazz, rock, folk, gospel, bluegrass)
  18. Texture
  19. Style
  20. Canon