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38 Cards in this Set
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What is A ABBA Form? |
Binary |
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What is ABA Form ? |
Ternary |
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What is ABACA form ? |
Rhondo Form |
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What are the four options when describing the tonality of a piece of music? |
Major, Minor, Modal, Atonal |
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Define Atonal |
Music without a recognisable key signature |
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Describe Major |
Music that uses a major key signature such as C major or F major |
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Describe Modal music |
Modal music uses modes such as Dorian and Ionian. Modes are an old scale system and can be found in folk, medieval music, jazz and pop. |
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What are cadences ? |
Punctuation in music. |
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What do cadences consist of ? |
2 chords that either finish a phrase/piece of music or provide a breath mark before continuing. |
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What are the 4 main cadences ? |
1. Perfect Cadence 2. Imperfect Cadence 3. Plagal Cadence 4. Interrupted cadence |
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What does a perfect cadence sound like ? |
Finished and Final (the music will not continue). |
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What are the two chords in a perfect cadence ? |
Chord V (5) moving to chord I (1) |
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What are the correct chords for a perfect cadence in G major ? |
Chord 5 = Do F# A (because D is the 5th note in G major) Chord 1st = GBD (Because G is the 1st note in G major) |
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What does an imperfect cadence sound like ? |
Unfinished, like the music will continue |
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What are the two chords you need to use in an imperfect cadence? |
Chord 1 or 2 moving to chord 5. |
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What does a plague cadence sound like ? |
Finished and final. The music will not continue. |
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How does it differ to a perfect cadence ? |
The plague cadence is used a lot in church music. |
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What are the two chords you need to use in a Plagal Cadence? |
Chord 4 moving to Chord 1. |
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What does an interrupted cadence sound like ? |
As if you are about to hear a perfect cadence but are then suddenly interrupted. It is unfinished. |
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What are the two chords you need to use in an interrupted cadence? |
Chord 5 moving to chord 6. |
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What is a mordent? |
It instructs the per order to rapidly alternate from the written note to the adjacent note. |
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What is an acciaccatura? |
A crushed grace note that you quickly play before the written note. |
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How do you make a melody a melody in thirds? |
Add a note that is a third above |
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What is a glissando? |
A slide between two notes |
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How is a piece diatonic ? |
When it stays in the home key |
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How is a piece chromatic ? |
When it includes notes that don't belong to the key signature |
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Augmentation? |
Double the note value |
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Diminuation ? |
Halve the notes value ? |
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What is augmentation? |
Multiplying the length of notes in a tune to get a new version of it. |
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What is diminution? |
Dividing the length notes in a tune to get a new version of it |
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What does Crescendo mean? |
Get louder |
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What does diminuendo mean ? |
Get quieter |
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What is another word for polyphonic ? |
Contrapuntal |
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What is a counter melody ? |
Extra tune played at the same time as the man melody to keep it interesting |
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Define |
Define anacrusis |
The note or notes preceding a downbeat;upbeat |
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Define alberti bass |
a kind of broken chord or arpeggiated accompaniment, where the notes of the chord are presented in the order lowest, highest, middle, highest. This pattern is then repeated. |
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Where there is only one melody it's ... |
Monophonic |
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When there are many melodies it is ... |
Polyphonic |
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