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12 Cards in this Set
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High and lowness of sound. "Frequency"
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Pitch
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Difference/Distance between two pitches.
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Interval
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Pitch adjacent to the 1st pitch (next door neighbor pitch)
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Step
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A pitch that is a few steps away from the first pitch
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Skip or Leap
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Distance between lowest and highest tones
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Pitch Range
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When two tones blend so well because they belong to the same frequency
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Octave
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Two tones that are exactly the same frequency
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Unison
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Amplitude, loud & soft -- pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff. Amp measured by decibels.
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Dynamics.
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Unpitched sound
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Irregular vibrations
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Tone color =
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Timbre. Quality of sound.
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European style orchestras these days tune to a pitch with a frequency of...
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440 cycles per second.
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Changes in dynamic can be sudden:
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Subito forte or Subito piano
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