Music Revision - Year 8
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- Created on: 28-02-14 17:59
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- Music Revision - Year 8
- Elements of music
- Melody
- Scalic - moves up or down by step
- Arpegiated - moves up or down by leap
- Fluid - flows
- Angular - jumps
- Harmony
- major - happy
- minor - sad
- Diminished - scary
- Augmented - magical
- Pitch
- middle
- high
- low
- Rhythm
- crotchet - 1
- minim - 2
- Quaver - half
- Semiquaver - quarter
- Semireve - 4
- Structure
- AB - binary
- ABA - Ternary
- ABACA - Rondo
- ABCDE - Narative
- A1A2A3 - theme and variation
- Add a note
- Subtract a note
- Add left hand
- Change left hand
- Change tempo
- Change note lengths
- Change key
- Tonality
- Major - happy
- Minor - Sad
- Modal - Chant/Jazz
- Blues - cool/jazzy
- Metre
- 2/4 - march
- 3/4 - waltz
- 4/4 - pop
- 6/8 - Irish dance
- Timbre
- Piercing - sharp
- Resonant - rich/warm
- Texture
- Monophonic - one layer
- Polyphonic - multiple layers
- Melody
- Interpretations
- Dynamics
- Mezzo Piano (mp) - quite quiet
- piano (p) - quiet
- Mezzo Forte (mf) - quite loud
- Pianissimo (pp) - very quiet
- Forte (f) - loud
- Fortissimo (ff) - very loud
- Crecsendo - getting louder
- Decrecsendo - getting quieter
- Tempo
- Moderato - moderate
- Adante - walking pace
- Allegro - fast
- adagio - Slow
- Vivace - Very fast
- Largo - very slow
- Accelerando - getting faster
- Rallentando - getting slower
- Dynamics
- African drumming
- Vocabulary
- Polyrhythm - many different rhythmic cycles being played at the same time
- Ostinato - musical pattern that is repeated many times
- Cross rhythm - A combination of rhythms that cut across each other
- Solo
- Soli - a group of like instruments that perform a group solo
- roll - drum roll
- syncopation - the rhythm is off the beat
- Instruments
- Djembe (ksink-ksink)
- Donno - talking drum
- Dundun
- Sangban
- kenkeni
- Kidi
- Banana bell
- Axatse
- Balafon
- Mbira
- Kora
- Vocabulary
- Blues
- Swung - where the first note is accented or leant on
- Improvisation - a small composition made up on cue which fits with the style of the music and the key signature
- Jazz - a style often used in parallel with blues
- Western classical music
- Classical - Hayden , Mozart, Beethoven
- Motif development, periodic phrasing, ballet
- 1750 - 1830
- Motif development, periodic phrasing, ballet
- Baroque - Bach, Vivaldi, Handel
- concerto's, Complex melodies, harpsichord
- 1600 - 1750
- concerto's, Complex melodies, harpsichord
- Romantic - Wagner, Chopin, Liszt
- Dramatic, Ballet, folk influences
- 1830 - 1920
- Dramatic, Ballet, folk influences
- Classical - Hayden , Mozart, Beethoven
- Film music
- Techniques
- mickey mousing - where the music follows the action perfectly
- Techniques
- Elements of music
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