MUS 101 (correctly answered)

chord correct answers simultaneous sounding of three or more pitches disjunct correct answers melodies that move in larger, disconnected intervals with many leaps rhythm correct answers length or duration of individual notes; what moves music forward in time countermelody correct answers an added melody sounding against another melody oral transmission correct answers preservation of music without the aid of written notation cadence correct answers a resting place in a musical sentence binary form correct answers two part structural pattern found in art and music; A-B syncopation correct answers deliberate disruption of the normal pattern of accents ternary form correct answers three part structural pattern found in art and music; A-B-A downbeat correct answers first accented beat of each pattern; measures often start with a strong one tonic correct answers first note on the scale (do) and is considered the home base around which the others resolve and to which they ultimately gravitate theme correct answers melodic idea is used as s building block in the construction of a larger musical work movement correct answers a complete, comparatively independent division of a large- scale work tempo correct answers rate of the speed of music allegro (fast) adagio (slow) decrescendo correct answers growing slower (dynamic) monophony correct answers simplest texture; single voiced membranophones correct answers drum-type instruments that are sounded from tightly stretched membranes; struck, plucked, or even sung into too triad correct answers most common chord in Western music; combination of three tones