MU100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Aretha Franklin, Missa Papae Marcelli
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Know the title of all the listening guide songs, circle options that describe song. Melody: distinct pitches (highness or lowness or a sound) sounding one after another. Syllabic (pitch changes on every syllable) or melismatic (multiple pitches per syllable) (only for vocals) Range and tessitura, distance between highest and lowest pitches. Conjunct (notes move in stepwise motion) or disjunct. Static (overly repetitive, melody is not going anywhere, no big modulations) or dynamic. Microtonal (steps smaller than a semitone), semitonal, tonal. Harmony: systematic arrangement of musical beats, accents and durations. Mode: music based on a melodic system of modes rather than keys. Atonal: lacks tonal foundation or key center, alternative to lush harmonic structures of late. Consonant: sounds pleasing to ear, socially defined and vary. Texture: ways in which different musical lines or sonorities fit together. Monophonic: all voices in unison doing same line or melody. Polyphony: 2 identifiable difference, harmonies or counterpoint, multiple independent melody lines.
