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| sound | begins with the vibration of an object |
| tone | A note; the basis of music |
| Dynamics | degrees of loudness and softness in sound |
| timbre | tone color, We describe this with words like bright, dark, brilliant, mellow and rich. |
| pizzicato | Performance direction to pluck a string of a bowed instrument with the finger. |
| vibrato | Small fluctuation of pitch used as an expressive device to intensify a sound. |
| tremolo | Rapid repetition of a tone; can be achieved instrumentally or vocally |
| rhythm | duration; the flow of music through time. It is the particular arrangement of note lengths in a piece of music. |
| meter | the organization of beats into regular groups |
| measure | the regular groups of beats in music-This is a group containing a fixed number of beats. |
| staff | a set of five horizontal lines upon which notes are placed in written music notation |
| clef | a musical symbol used to indicate the pitch of written notes.[1] Placed on one of the lines at the beginning of the staff, it indicates the name and pitch of the notes on that line. |
| chord | A combination of three or more tones sounded simultaneously |
| harmony | The sounding of two or more tones simultaneously; the vertical aspect of music |
| dissonance | Sounds of unrest, e.g. intervals of seconds and sevenths; the opposite of consonance |
| scale | A series of tones or pitches in ascending or descending order; These tones are often assigned numbers (1-8) or syllables (do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do). |
| monophony | Single-line texture, or melody without accompaniment |
| polyphony | Two or more melodic lines combined into a multivoiced texture, as distinct from monophonic. |
| music is distinguished by these 4 elements | pitch, dynamics, timbre, rhythm |
