RTA 180 Final: Definitions
21 Sep 2018
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Pitch: how high or low a musical sound is. Disjunct: a piece that has a series of large intervals. Conjunct: a piece that has a series of small intervals. Octave: perfect eighth (same note an octave higher) Perfect 5th: notes five spaces apart on a keyboard (doh to soh) Minor 2nd: half step/half tone/semitone (notes a half step apart) Chord: sound of three or more pitches at any given moment. Tritones: interval that creates tension melodically and harmonically. Rhythm: the organization of musical sound as it occurs in time. Beat: musical time also referred to as a pulse. Meter: regular pattern of strong and weak beats. Syncopation: used to contradict the given pulse by creating accents on weak beats or between beats. Tempo: speed at which musical sound occurs measured in beats per minute. Quarter note: two eighth notes, half of a half note. Whole note: two half notes, 4 quarter notes.
