The Elements of Music

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Texture

Heterophony

Is a type of texture characterized by the simultaneous variation of a single melodic line

Homophonic

Is a piece of music with chords, where two instruments play the same line of melody in the same rhythm

Polyphonic

Is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice>

Monophonic

Is the simplest of musical textures, consisting of a melody, typically sung by a single singer or played by a single instrument player without accompanying harmony or chords.

Tone Color

Instrumentation

Is the particular combination of musical instruments employed in a composition, and the properties of those instruments individually

Range

Is the distance from the lowest to the highest pitch it can play.

Register

Is the "height" or range of a note, set of pitches or pitch classes, melody , part, instrument, or group of instruments.

Harmony

Tonality

Is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions and directionality.

Key

Of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a music composition

Progression

Have the function of establishing or contradicting a tonality, the technical name for what is commonly understood as the "key" of a song or piece.

Chord

Is three or more notes that combine harmoniously

Form

Through-composed

Is relatively continuous, non-sectional, or non-repetitive music.

Strophic

Is music in which every verse or chorus is sung to the same refrain.

Ternary

A symmetrical structure in music most often represented by the letters ABA.

Binary

A musical form in 2 related sections, both of which are usually repeated.

Melody

Disjunct

A melodic line that moves by leaps and skips rather than in steps.

Conjunct

Simply describes a melody that moves in distinct steps or intervals, smoothly, and in a connected way.

Theme

Consists of a recognizable melody or a characteristic rhythmic pattern

Pitch

The quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone.

Dynamics

Decrescendo

A gradual decrease in volume of a musical passage.

Crescendo

The loudest point reached in a gradually increasing sound.

Piano

Meaning "soft"

Forte

Meaning "loud".

Rhyme

syncopation

A temporary displacement of the regular metrical accent in music caused typically by stressing the weak beat

Tempo

The speed at which a passage of music is or should be played.

Meter

Is a recurring pattern of stresses or accents that provide the pulse or beat of music.

Beat

Strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, typically with an implement such as a club or whip.