Music Terms M - W

This makes the note a semi-tone higher

The fees paid to an artist when someone else uses their work with permission

A note value that is a quarter of a beat

what is secular music

This is a type of energetic dance music native to Brazil

This means old style and is a style of singing as opposed to a type of song

This is a pattern of notes organised in order of pitch

Three note values played in the time of two

The unique tone quality or specific sound of an instrument

Songs use to encourage love for ones country

The symbol that tells us the note are from middle c up to high g

A short phrase that's is easily remembered

This is the pattern of long and short sounds in music

The second section in a Irish Dance tune

A piece in this form has only one theme or section which may repeat.

smooth means

This music was music that was based on the bible or other Sarceed texts

When two instruments or voices perform the same notes

The different layers of a song or a piece of music

A patern of five different notes within an octave

Decorating a song by add extra notes

The Song at the opening of a TV show

Anything that creates sound

A long tube with several holes and a mouthpiece at one end

This is music from the period 1910 to the present

Is plucking the action of playing a single string on a

Change the Key or Clef of a piece

These are mechanical or technological effects that can be added to sounds to modify them

The senventh note in the minor scale raised by a semi tone

The second lowest pitched voice in a choir

These are rights that protect the ownership and use of peoples possessions

A large amount of instruments that you tap or hit to make a sound

Irish instrument resembling bag pipes, played with elbow

what is a sound source

What describes the speed of the pulse

Repeated notes refer to

This piece only has one melody.

Is the pitch

Three note chord built on root, middle note and fifth

A way to describe the pitch of notes using syllables

A piece in this form has a returning theme or section. This section can have slight variations

Notes flowing gently

Individual sounds that each has their own length and value

This is written form of a musical compostion

Which cord comes after chord V in a Perfect Cadence

The musical alphabet is

Music passed down by listening

A sign used to cancel a flat or a sharp from either the preceding note or the key signature

Similar to the concert flute but wooden and used in Irish music

The use of similar sounding words in a text

It indicates that a section of music needs to be repeated

Interval of eight notes

A work composed for a solo instrument with accompaniment

Musical idea repeated at a higher or lower pitch

Repeating paterns in music

Was a piano invented in the

This period was focused on writing music not just about love but human emotion and experience

A symbol that sustains a note, often over a bar line

Arranging notes of a triad for different voices

The distance between the highest and lowest note

This note is used to inform an audience on the content of a performance

A piece that has three sections or phrases

Are Phrases a….

What is a reed?

The first section of an Irish dance piece

Is a plagal cadence

A big group of musicians playing together

the highest voice in a choir

This is a genre of music where performers speak or chant lyrics to a rhythm

This is descriptive music that tells a story or describes things like poems or images

This is a steady continuous beat in music

Small Guitar like instrument with 4 strings

This is the study of music.

How many beats are in a bar

Notation is

This refers to the feeling or emotion evoked by a piece of music

what is a soprano

A computer program used to notate sheet music

These open and close to allow air into parts of some instruments to produce different pitches

what is a semiquaver

In music this is a section within a larger work. Think of it as one chapter within a book

What is the word for playing more than one rhythm at the same time

The inbuilt instrument for talkng and singing

The element that makes a piece of music sound happ or sad

One of the earliest wind instruments in Irish Music

What is the name of a tune composed for the head of a household and often named after them

It is an common Irish dance tune

Music technology refers to any technology that can make, preform, play, record or edit music

They indicate moments of silence in a piece of music

Postion that a person holds their body in while standing or sit

Muscles in our throat that opens and closes when we breath, sleep and sing.

The family of Flute, Clarinet, Oboe & Bassoon

The Renaissance was a period and reinvigoration of European music,

A piece in this form has a returning theme or section

Does a polyphonic instrument have