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Grave

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Cards (38)

Section 1

(38 cards)

Grave

Front

very slow, solemn

Back

Quadruple meter

Front

4 beats per measure

Back

Interval

Front

The distance between two notes

Back

Presto

Front

Very fast

Back

Allegro

Front

fast, cheerful

Back

Mezzo piano

Front

moderately soft

Back

Organum

Front

The carliest kind of polyphonic music, which developed from custom of adding voices above plainchant

Back

Tempo

Front

speed of music

Back

Pianissimo

Front

very soft

Back

Drone

Front

A signal sustained tone

Back

triple meter

Front

3 beats per measure

Back

Pitch

Front

a tone's experienced highness or lowness; depends on frequency

Back

Dynamics

Front

Provide the manipulation of the volume characteristics of music expression

Back

Descrescendo

Front

gradually get softer

Back

Fortissimo

Front

very loud

Back

measure

Front

Is a unit of meter containing a specific amount of beats

Back

duple meter

Front

2 beats per measure

Back

Leonin

Front

3rd and 4th voices

Back

Gregorian Chant

Front

A monophonic, unaccompanied style of liturgical singing that takes its name from Pope Gregory the Great

Back

meter

Front

Is the organization of patterned rhythms in written music notation

Back

Chord

Front

Is the sounding of 3 or more combined pitches

Back

forte

Front

loud

Back

Polyphony

Front

Two or more simultaneous musical lines

Back

Acapella

Front

choral music without instrumental accompaniment

Back

Neumes

Front

are early musical notation signs; square notes on a four-line staff

Back

Largo

Front

Broad very slow

Back

Downbeat

Front

Is the strongest accented of measure usually occurring on the first beat

Back

Monophony

Front

A single line of music

Back

Tone

Front

Is a sound of definite pitch

Back

Beat

Front

regular pulsation; a basic unit of length in musical time

Back

Melody

Front

a succession of single pitches that we perceive as a recognizable whole

Back

Perotin

Front

2nd voice

Back

Crescendo

Front

gradually get louder

Back

Andante

Front

walking pace

Back

Hildegard of Bingen

Front

nun who was also a poet and musician

Back

Vivace

Front

lively

Back

Piano

Front

soft

Back

Adagio

Front

quite slow

Back