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1.11: Key Terms and Individuals

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    • Accidentals

    • Acoustics

    • Acoustical Engineer

    • Acoustician

    • Amplitude

    • Beat

    • Brass

    • Chord

    • Chord Progression

    • Chromatic

    • Composition

    • Conjunct

    • Consonant

    • Cycles per Second (cps)

    • Disjunct

    • Dissonant

    • Dynamics

    • Equalization

    • Form

    • Frequency

    • Fundamental Pitch

    • Guido of Arezzo

    • Improvisation

    • Instrumentation

    • Interval • Harmony

    • Hertz (Hz) • Homophonic

    • Key

    •Keyboard

    • Measure

    • Melody

    • Meter

    • Monophonic

    • Motive

    • Music

    • Noise

    • Octave

    • Overtones

    • Partials

    • Percussion

    • Performing Forces

    • Phrase

    • Pitch

    • Polyphony

    • Polyrhythm

    • Range

    • Register

    • Rhythm

    • Scale

    • Sequence

    • Seventh Chord

    • Sine Wave

    • Sound

    • Sound Waves

    • Step

    • Strings

    • Syncopation

    • Synthesizers

    • Tempo

    • Texture

    • Timbre

    • Time Signature

    • Tonic

    • Triad

    • Twelve‐Bar Blues

    • Vocal

    • Woodwinds


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