MUSC101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Singing Melody, Consonant Harmony, Indigenous Music Of North America
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Meters are patterns that depend on regular accents. Meter marked in measures or bars, organizes the beats in music. Distance between two pitches is an interval. Star spangled banner"s melodic movement can be described as disjunct. The parts that make up a melody are phrases; phrases end in resting places called cadences. Timbre describes the tone quality of a sound. Structure of a melody can be described using cadence, phrase and rhyme scheme. Most children"s songs have a narrow range. Contour of opening phrase of joy to the world is descending. Contour refers to overall shape of a melody. Scale is a collection of pitches arranged in ascending and descending order. Harmony is defined as the simultaneous combination of notes, which results in intervals and chords. First note of the scale is the tonic. In western music between the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the main types of tonality were major and minor.
