Understanding Music - Past and Present (Clark et al. music performed by untrained musicians and passed down through oral traditions. Music Appreciation Lesson 3 Flashcards | Quizlet Ex. Absorption- sound waves are absorbed by porous surfaces is the accompanying dance tune for an energetic fold dance usually in a compound , art The process whereby musicians spontaneously create music. For example, an ascending melodic line would portray the text ), how quickly or slowly a medium (solid, liquid, gas) vibrates and produces a sound, musical texture that simultaneously features two or more relatively independent and important melodic lines, two or more different rhythms played at the same time, the number of pitches; expressed as an intervallic distance, the low, medium, and high sections of an instrument or vocal range, the way the music is organized in respect to time, a series of pitches; ordered by the interval between its notes, a repetition of a motive or phrase at a different pitch level, a chord that has four pitches stacked in intervals of thirds, the simplest sound wave that occurs in nature; a pure __________ contains no partials and is perfectly smooth and rounded in appearance on an oscilloscope, the mechanical moment of an audible pressure wave through a solid, liquid, or gas, longitudinal waves (compression and rarefaction waves) that travel through a solid, liquid, or gas, the distance between adjacent notes in a musical scale, instruments whose sound is produced by setting strings in motion, the act of shifting the moral accent; usually by stressing the normally unaccented weak beats or placing the accent between the beats themselves, electronic instruments (often in keyboard form) that create sounds using basic wave forms in different combinations, the ways in which musical lines of a musical piece interact, the tone color or tone quality of a sound, the numeric notation at the beginning of a line of music where the top number indicates how many beats are in each measure and the bottom number indicates which type of note will represent that beat, the most important pitch of a key; the note from which the other pitches are derived, a chord that has three pitches stacked in intervals of thirds, a twelve-bar musical form commonly found in American music, instruments traditionally made of wood whose sound is generated by forcing air through a tube, thus creating a vibrating air column. Any simultaneous combination of tones and the rules governing those combinations (the way a melody is accompanied is also another way to define harmony).
