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23 Cards in this Set
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pitch
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refers to the 'highness' or 'lowness' of a musical sound. Denoted by letters.
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middle C
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the C nearest the center of the keyboard, nearest the manufacturers name.
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Octave
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refers to the eight white keys contained in the interval. Defined by the ratio of frequencies 1:2:4:8
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staff
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consists of five parallel lines that indicate the pitch (highness or lowness) of sounds.
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clef
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A symbol placed at the beginning of the staff to indicate the names of various lines and spaces
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treble clef
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the most commen clef in music. It is a stylized letter G that indicates the second line of the staff to be G
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ledger lines
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lines above the staff that can extend the range of the staff.
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Grand staff
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combination of the treble and bass staves
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accent
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> sounds that are stressed
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Meter
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regular pattern of accented and unaccented beats. Most music has these regular patterns of stressed and meter can be classified by the number of beats in the pattern
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duple meter
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two beats in the the pattern
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triple meter
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when there are three beats in the pattern
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quadruple meter
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3 notes in the pattern
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bar line
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notates music, divides the groups of beats into measures
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measure
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the music between two bar lines
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meter signture
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two numbers placed at the beginning of the piece of music. The lower number indicates a note value. The upper number indicates how many are in a measure
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simple meters
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meters in which the beat is divided into two parts. Duple, triple and quadruple
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upbeat/ anacrusis
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one or more notes before the first measure
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subdivision of the beat
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into four equal parts
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dotted eigth notes
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works the way as a dotted quarter note. and eigth note tied to a sixteenth note
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triplets
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a compound division in simple meter
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compound meters
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meters in which the beats are divided into three parts. Usually have 6 9 or 12 as the top
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duple compound
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each measure has two beats and the beat is divided into three parts
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