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a musical form where parts enter at different times but have the same melody throughout canon a steady pulse beat the highness or lowness of sound determined by its frequency of vibration pitch a question-and-answer pattern in which a group responds to a leader call and response a basic rhythmic pattern that provides the foundation for the complex rhythms played by multiple tones clave an intentionally organized succession of musical tones melody the structure and design of a composition, incorporating repetition, contrast, unity, and variety form an interval of eight pitch names, such as C to the next C above or below octave Chapter 1