Music Definitions

Question	Answer
Guitar Types	Electric Bass Acoustic
Drum types	Bass Snare Side Tom Tom
Perfect Cadence	V - I Five to One Sound completed.
Imperfect Cadence	? - V Anything to Five Sounds like wants to repeat.
Plagal Cadence	IV - I Four to One Sounds church like, closer together than Perfect.
Interrupted	V - VI Five to Six Goes to minor, sounds wrong.
Acciacatura	Quick grace note, does not lean.
Appoggiatura	Slower grace note, leans on the beat. Think of Gr. 7 Violin A1 piece.
Unison	All parts sing in unison. If male voices, may be singing down octave so watch out for octaves.
Homophonic	Sounding together. Everything played at same time with chords.
Polyphonic or Contrapuntal	Many lines of music weaving in between each other.
Fugue	Solo instrument plays tune. Then Tune is passed around other instruments.
A cappella	Without accompaniment of instruments. Just voices.
Call and response	Solo instrument plays a tune (Question) then other instruments answer it.
Melody and accompaniment	One voice plays melody and is accompanied by rest of another.
Long Answers:	- Structure? - Instruments? - How and what playing? -Texture -Dynamics -Style

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	Created by Marianne Scotland almost 9 years ago

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