MUS 200- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 44 pages long!)
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Harmony: the combination of simultaneous musical sounds, chord, consonance: pleasing sounds, dissonance: displease sounds, ex: sleep-eric whittaker. Texture: a description of the vertical layers in a piece of music, monophonic: one melody, no accompaniment, homophonic: one melody with accompaniment, polyphonic: two or more independent melodies. Form: how music is organized, musical genres, text, function (worship vs marching, performing forces. Musical instruments of the symphony orchestra: string, violin, viola, cello, double bass, harp, woodwinds, flute, clarient, bassoon (saxophone, oboe, brass, trumpet, french horn, trombone, tuba, percussion, timpani, xylophone, mirimaba, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, cymbals, etc. Keyboards: piano, harpsicord, 2 manuals, controls volume, strings plucked, organ, king of instruments, pressurized air in pipes foot pedals, most now electric (tuning) Tone color (timbre: pronounced (tam-bur, distinctive characteristic of a son, range, material, playing technique, ex: bright, dark, mellow, piercing, warm, etc, example: stravinsky firebird part 2.
