| A | B |
| Rhythm | organization of musical tones in time - includes the factors of beat, meter, and tempo |
| Melody | A series of tones of different pitched arranged ina rhythmic patter. |
| Timbre | the tone color or quality of sound of an instrument |
| harmony | the sound that results when two or more sounds are played at the same time |
| dynamics | the characterists of music that include loudness, softness and how fast or slow a compsition is. |
| Form | the design or shape into which musical compositional materials are molded. |
| Tempo | the rate of speed at which a musicl composition is played or sung. |
| step, skip or repeat | melodies move this way |
| can be felt, heard and seen. can be expressed in all areas of art. | rhtythm |
| 1 and 3 | normal accents |
| syncopation | accented beats which are normally unaccented |
| beat | recurring pulse |
| accent | the stress on a beat |
| pulse | steady throb which recurs throughout each piece of music |
| first beat in a measure | typical placement of an accented beat. |
| the rate at which rhytmic groups are going | tempo |
| polypohonic | multiple lines of melody |
| homophonic | only onel line of meldogy |
| fifths | most common kind of harmony |
| chord | a collection of notes piled on top of each other |
| distance between two notes | interval |