or bowed. 2. Music- is part of this world of sound‚ an art based on the organization of sounds in time. 3. Pitch- is the relative highness or lowness that we hear in a sound. 4. Interval- "Distance" in pitch between any two tones. 5. How are vibration and pitch related? - The faster the vibrations‚ the higher the pitch; the slower the vibrations‚ the lower the pitch. Vibration frequency is measured in cycles per second. On a piano the highest-frequency tone is 4‚186 cycles per second
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Sound aspects: a) the articulatory aspect (the movements and positions of the speech organs‚ power‚ vibration‚ resonator‚ obstruction mechanism). b) the acoustic aspect (sound waves – vocal cords>tone‚ overtones‚ harmonics‚ fundamental frequency>pitch of voice‚ amplitude>intensity); c) the auditory (perceptive) aspect (physiological mechanism (ear>brain)‚ psychological mechanism (to remember phonetic similarities)); d) the functional (linguistic) aspect (phonemes‚ syllables‚ stress‚ and intonation>meaningful
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music incorporates a jazz vocabulary‚ soloists with distinctive voices‚ including Miles Davis‚ and syncopated rhythmic accents in the melody. To persuade critics of this
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[pic] |Enjoyment of Music 2012 CSUF Study online at quizlet.com/_8cnf0 | | |1.|12 | |How many major scales are there in Western music? | |2.|active | |In Western music‚ dominant and subdominant chords are called _______ chords: | |3.|additive meter | |A grouping of beats that adds up to a larger overall pattern is called: | |4.|binary
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conveying information in speech which is independent of the words and their sounds. Central to intonation is the modulation of pitch‚ and intonation is often thought of as the use of pitch over the domain of the utterance. However‚ the patterning of pitch in speech is so closely bound to patterns of timing and loudness‚ and sometimes voice quality‚ that we cannot consider pitch in isolation from these other dimensions. The interaction of intonation and stress — the patterns of relative prominence which
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MUS 103 Music Appreciation D.J. Culp‚ Jr. Graduate Instructor Ph.D. Student in Music Education Office: Practice Room 245C (second floor) Music Building djculpjr@olemiss.edu Text: Listening to Music‚ 7th ed. What does it mean to Appreciate? Appreciate: to value or regard highly; to be grateful or thankful for; to raise in value Is appreciation a requirement of enjoyment? Does appreciation yield enjoyment? What to expect from this course Learn to actively listen by studying musical
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linguistics‚ intonation is variation of spoken pitch that is not used to distinguish words; instead it is used for a range of functions such as indicating the attitudes and emotions of the speaker‚ signalling the difference between statement and question‚ and between different types of question‚ focussing attention on important elements of the spoken message and also helping to regulate conversational interaction. It contrasts with tone‚ in which pitch variation in some languages does distinguish words
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Test 1 1) A primary purpose of this course is to become a more perceptive listener. * a) true * b) false 2) A primary purpose of this course is to improve your ability to listen to music ____________. * a) loudly * b) slowly * c) intelligently 3) A primary purpose of this course is to cultivate an awareness and knowledge of musical traditions from West Tennessee only. * a) true * b) false 4) A goal of this course is to gain an understanding of the structure
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the piece‚ Barber has chosen to abandon the time signature and unclearly state the rhythm (see figure 1). He ignores the metre throughout the piece‚ and seems to be fluctuating beats freely‚ per measure to follow the accents of the text. This is represented when the key changes pitch from A minor to F sharp major in bars 27-29 (see figure 2). The piano shifts many different time signature throughout the song. This is another example of the duration markings in the score which are a significant aspect
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style of singing‚ Dialect and Regionalisms‚ and most importantly‚ the instruments. One of the more important traits of the country sound was the dialect and regionalisms‚ specifically the regional southern accent. The early country singers naturally retained in their Songs not only their accent but their dialect as well with such words as “a-goin’‚” “a-comin’‚” “rise you up‚” and “yonders.” The Style of Singing was characterized by a particular manner of singing. A direct carryover from the folk singing
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