Music Terms M - W

This is a steady continuous beat in music

This is written form of a musical compostion

Repeating paterns in music

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

Are Phrases a….

Change the Key or Clef of a piece

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

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

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

Notation is

Was a piano invented in the

This is the study of music.

A piece that has three sections or phrases

Does a polyphonic instrument have

Arranging notes of a triad for different voices

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

This piece only has one melody.

Music passed down by listening

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

The musical alphabet is

When two instruments or voices perform the same notes

What is a reed?

Is plucking the action of playing a single string on a

This is music from the period 1910 to the present

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

Which cord comes after chord V in a Perfect Cadence

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

How many beats are in a bar

This makes the note a semi-tone higher

the highest voice in a choir

A short phrase that's is easily remembered

Three note values played in the time of two

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

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

The first section of an Irish dance piece

The different layers of a song or a piece of music

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

Three note chord built on root, middle note and fifth

what is secular music

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

A piece in this form has a returning theme or section

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

A way to describe the pitch of notes using syllables

Decorating a song by add extra notes

They indicate moments of silence in a piece of music

A computer program used to notate sheet music

A patern of five different notes within an octave

It is an common Irish dance tune

The second section in a Irish Dance tune

A big group of musicians playing together

A note value that is a quarter of a beat

Anything that creates sound

Individual sounds that each has their own length and value

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

One of the earliest wind instruments in Irish Music

It indicates that a section of music needs to be repeated

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

Is a plagal cadence

Notes flowing gently

The second lowest pitched voice in a choir

The Song at the opening of a TV show

what is a semiquaver

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

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

This is the pattern of long and short sounds in music

Small Guitar like instrument with 4 strings

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

What describes the speed of the pulse

Interval of eight notes

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

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

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

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

This is a type of energetic dance music native to Brazil

Is the pitch

The distance between the highest and lowest note

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

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

The family of Flute, Clarinet, Oboe & Bassoon

A work composed for a solo instrument with accompaniment

Irish instrument resembling bag pipes, played with elbow

Songs use to encourage love for ones country

what is a sound source

This is a pattern of notes organised in order of pitch

Musical idea repeated at a higher or lower pitch

The Renaissance was a period and reinvigoration of European music,

smooth means

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

The unique tone quality or specific sound of an instrument

The use of similar sounding words in a text

The inbuilt instrument for talkng and singing

Repeated notes refer to

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

what is a soprano

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