Basic Components of Music Analysis

The Western music pitch set contains 14 notes

A sequence of pitches is called:

The following is NOT a common pulse grouping in western music

A repetitive chord progressions and some sort of repeating accompaniment is called:

A conjunct melody features several wide leaps between pitches

The following is NOT a word that describes musical texture

Variations in timbre are made possible by the existence of:

This word means quality of sound; it helps you to tell the difference between a guitar and a piano.

(Blank) has to do with how pitches are begun, sustained, and released

Legato is a term to describe smoothly connected pitches with gentle onsets and a great deal of sustain

This word describes how fast or slow music is

This word is NOT associated with rhythm

A thicker music texture tends to have lots of instruments or musical lines all at once

the musical term for increasing in volume

How high or low a sound is :

Groups of pitches sounded simultaneously are called melodies