A214 - Musical definitions - C
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Definition: Cadence from the Latin cadere, to fall, can be defined as a logical ending to a phrase or movement based on certain accepted melodic and harmonic formulae Cadences are the punctuation of music See also: Pages on Cadences Taken from: Unit 4, p.11 and Unit 8 p.31 and 37 Definition: The canon is a musical genre where polyphony is created by having a single tune sung by several voices, which enter in turn in strict imitation Examples: 'Three Blind Mice', 'Tallis's Canon', 'Pachelbel's Canon' Taken from: Unit 4, p.7 Definition: A particularly short motif, say of two or three notes, is sometimes called a cell. Taken from: Unit 16, p.69 Definition: A chord is produce when different pitches are sounded simultaneously. See also: Pages on Chord cards and chord making Taken from: Unit 5, p.39 Definition: 'Chord I is held under the whole of these 2 bars, and that is possible because all the melody notes are found in I: C - E - G. We sometimes say that such a melody 'spells out' the chord, and logically, the E and the 2 Gs are called chord notes. Chord notes occur when a melody moves up or down the notes of a chord. Taken from: Unit 7, pp. 19 - 20 Definition: if you start from C and go up by 5ths 12 times, you will eventually end up on another C, thus 'completing' the circle of fifths. When you move through the circle and extra sharp is needed for the leading-note of each new scale. See also: Circle of fifths diagram Taken from: Unit 6, p.75 Definition: from the Latin: Clavis. Clefs are placed at the beginning of staves to denote the pitch of a particular line and therefore the pitches of the other lines together with the spaces in between the lines. Three clefs are in current usage:
Taken from: Unit 3, p.57 Definition: Cluster is a group of three or more notes on adjacent lines and spaces Taken from: Unit 14, p.9 Definition: As a time saver, the instruction coll' ottava (= with the octave) can be added to indicate that the lower octave is added to each individual note Taken from: Unit 15, p.37 Definition: When an interval exceeds an octave it is called compound Examples: Tenths are a third + an octave, Thirteenths are a sixth + an octave Taken from: Unit 11, p.21 Definition: Consequent means resolution (or answer) Further info: music moves to the tonic note See also: Antecedent Taken from: Unit 4, p.18 Definition: Contrary motion describes simultaneous movement in two parts where one rises and the other falls ...when adding a bass to a melody is to keep the two parts moving as far as possible in contrary motion, i.e. when the melody rises the bass falls and vice versa Taken from: Unit 8, p.45 and Unit 11, p.21 Definition: independent strands, or 'parts' in the music... is a complex texture... there is a technical term for this sort of writing: this is counterpoint. The texture here can therefore be described as contrapuntal. Taken from: Unit 9, p.10 |
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Last updated: 21 May, 2004