Terms

Mastering vocabulary is an important part of any course. You should take this list of terms below and provide definitions. I will be testing your knowledge of these terms throughout the course.

Please read common mistakes made by students:

Unit 1

Frequency

Amplitude

Pitch

Audacity

Transport bar

Piano Keyboard

Decibel (dB)

Herz (Hz)

Plagiarism

Fair Use

Unit 2

MIDI (musical instrument digital interface)

General MIDI (GM), General MIDI instrument

MIDI channel number 10

“PC” number in MIDI

dynamics

pp (pianissimo), p (piano), mp (mezzo piano), mf (mezzo forte), f (forte), ff (fortissimo)

note

rest

motive

phrase

melody

harmony

chord

rhythm

tempo

bass (low)

treble (high)

Unit 3

Song form

intro (introduction)

verse

chorus

outro, extro (coda)

instrumental solo

interlude

bridge (this means something different than just an interlude. It is a special way in which the music moves from the A to the B section.)

AABA form

chord

harmony

12 bar blues

metronome

wave form

effect

loop

Unit 4

fade, fades

crossfade, crossfades

envelope

pan, panning

acoustic energy

musical space

Unit 5

models of creativity:

Romantic view of creativity (muse, inspiration)

Systems model of creativity

ADSR

dynamic processing

agents in the creative process:

person

domain

field

tempo (note the difference from term "rhythm")

Unit 6

remix

creative communities

textures in music

monophonic

homophonic

polyphonic

Unit 7

meter (in music)

pulse, beat

division of beat

simple

compound

duple meter

triple meter

rhythm

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Terms