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CLEP Humanities - Music Chapter 8 with verified solutions (graded A+).
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CLEP Humanities - MusicChapter 8 with verified
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Music - answer the organization of sound and time
Duration - answer how long a sound or a silence lasts and the rate
at which one sound succeeds asnother
Rhythm - answer a regular, repeated pattern of sounds or
movements
Pulse - answer a. A regular or rhythmical beating
b. A single beat or throb
Tempo - answer refers to the speed of the pulse
Metric - answer patterns formed when some beats are regularly
stronger than others is said to be
Ametric - answer music in which there is no perceivable metric
organization
Duple meter - answer musical metre characterized by a primary
division of 2 beats to the bar, usually indicated by 2 and multiples or
6 and multiples in the upper figure of the time signature, with 2/2,
2/4, and 6/8 being the most common examples
, Measure, Bar - answer segment of time defined by a given number
of beats, each of which are assigned a particular note value
Time signature - answer an indication of rhythm following a clef,
generally expressed as a fraction with the denominator defining the
beat as a division of a whole note and the numerator giving the
number of beats in each bar
Syncopation - answer musical rhythm in which stress is given to the
weak beats instead of the strong beats; a temporary displacement
of the regular metrical accent in music caused typically by stressing
the weak beat
Interval - answer distance between two pitches
Octave - answer the interval from one pitch to its next repetion
Half step - answer a musical interval (as E-F or B-C or C-C#)
equivalent to 1⁄12 of an octave — also called semitone
Note names on a keyboard - answer C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C,D,E,F,G,A,B...
Scale - answer the arrangement of pitches within an octave
Chromatic scale - answer a scale containing all twelve half steps,
that is , one using every key on the keyboard
Diatonic scale names - answer tonic,supertonic, mediant,
subdominant, dominant, mediant, leading tone, tonic
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