MUSC 171- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 37 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Beat (pulse): basic unit of musical time. Bar line: divides music into repeated patterns. Measure (bar): one unit of a repeated pattern. Backbeat: accents on 2nd and 4th beat in a 4/4 measure. Meter: pattern of strong and weak beats that are repeated where number below refers to which duration gets the beat and the number above refers to how many of them are in a bar. Mixed meter: combination of different notes (cid:862)out of ti(cid:373)e(cid:863) tempo: speed of music ritard: slowing down of music syncopation: playing stress on an unexpected beat or between beats keeps things pushed. Pitch: highness and lowness of the sound larger vocal code produces a wider range: defi(cid:374)ite pit(cid:272)h: to(cid:374)e, (cid:862)pla(cid:455)a(cid:271)le o(cid:374) pia(cid:374)o(cid:863) timbre: quality of the sound. Fundamentals of a song chorus (hook): repeated music and repeated lyrics verse: repeated music with new lyrics each time intro: unique and generally instrumental.
