MUSI 1F10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Chromatic Scale, Accelerando, Ternary Form
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The title of this example is: greensleeves, america, the star spangled banner, yesterday. This example represents the following material(s) of music: narrow range, conjunct melody, dissonance, ternary form, wide range, disjunct melody. The word classical refers to: ancient greece or rome, modern times, a specific artistic era, a section of the newspaper. A major scale is made of: whole steps and half steps, half steps only chromatic scale, whole steps only whole tone scale, triads and chords. Tempo the speed of the beat (fast or slow) Dynamics the volume of the music (loud or soft) Italian words traditionally used to denote tempo: grave (v. v slow, largo (v. slow, adagio (slow, andante (walking pace, moderato (moderate, allegro (fast, vivace (lively, presto (very fast) Changes in speed: accelerando (getting faster, ritardando (getting slower, rubato (free [lit. Robbed ] time: a tempo (back to the original tempo) Beats per minute ie. mm (metronome marking) = 104 means 104 beats per minute.