Area Of Study 4

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Bhangra

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Mixture of Indian Classical music with British pop

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Chaal

Back 2

A base rhythm played on a dhol

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Rag

Back 3

Scale used in Indian music

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Tala

Back 4

Rhythmic ideas used in Bhangra

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Dhol

Back 5

Indian drum

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Sitar

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Exotic Indian stringed instrument normally plays a improvised melody

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Tabla

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Indian drum

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Tanpura

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Exotic Indian stringed instrument normally plays a drone

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Drone

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Long continous note

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Son

Back 10

An important percussive rhythm

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Clave

Back 11

An important instrument used in Salsa music

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Cross rhythms

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Rhythms that cross over e.g. crotchets against triplet idea

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Montuno

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Made-up or conversation between voices/instruments

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Choro

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Main chorus part of a song/piece of music

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Son bands

Back 15

Guitar, drum kit, percussion instruments, vocals, trumpets

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Swing

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Style of music or direction to swing the notes

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Walking bass

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Fast moving bass line normally played by double bass

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Comping

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Playing chords

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Indonesian gamlean

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Music fron the islands of Indonesia, religious and spiritual. Consists of many different layers

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Minimalism

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20th Century technique in reducing musical material and compositions

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Polyrhythm

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Rhythms that cross over

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Cyclic

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Pattern that keeps going - like a bicycle wheel

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Layering

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Adding different parts to a piece of music

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Phase

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Length of a phrase and duration

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Sequencing

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Using ICT to generate music

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Editing

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Changing the length/duration/dynamics of notes within a piece of music

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Multi-tracking

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Creating lots of different layers within a piece of music

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Mixing

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Creating/performing music with speciali effects using technology

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Tape loops

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Short fragments/ideas of sound are repeated over a period of time

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Phillip Glass

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Minimalist composer

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Michael Nyman

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Minimalist composer

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Homophonic

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Parts moving together

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Monophonic

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One individual/recognisable melody/part

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Heterophonic

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Different layers of the same material e.g. playing at different speeds/rhythms

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Polyphonic

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Parts moving in different directions e.g. like pipes in a factory moving in different directions

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Ostinato

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Short pattern of repeated notes

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Dynamics

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The volume of the piece of music

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Delay

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Shifting the start time of a musical phrase/idea

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Arpeggio

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Notes of a chord played in sucession

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Cadence

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How the last 2 notes of a phrase are organised

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Clarinet

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Important instrument used in Classical music onwards

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Piano

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Invented around 1700 used from the Classical period onwards

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Crescendo

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Getting louder

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Inversion

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Mirroring a melody

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Prime

Back 45

Order of 12 notes