Music

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Glissando and Pizzicato
Sliding from one note to another. Plucking the strings.
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What are the main groups of instruments?
Woodwind, Brass, String, Percussion and Keyboard.
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What are the main 4 types of vocal groups?
Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass
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What is a chord?
Two or more notes sounding together
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What is the tonic chord?
The chord built on the first note of the scale
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What is the subdominant chord?
The chord built on the fourth IV
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Diatonic Harmony?
When the notes belong to the key
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Chromatic Harmony?
Uses notes from outside the key to give the chords more 'colour'.
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Perfect Cadence?
First and Fifth chords
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Interrupted Cadence
When you think you're going to hear a perfect cadence, but you get a minor chord instead
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Tonal Music?
Music that is in a major or minor key
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Atonal Music
Music that is unrelated to a tonic note
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Modal Music
Music in a mode
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What does it mean when a piece of music is modulated?
The piece modulates/changes to a closer related key.
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Drone?
A repeated bass note played throughout.
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Interval
Distance between the pitch of two notes, where the smallest interval is a semitone
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Pentatonic scale
A scale that includes 5 notes
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A riff, ostinato and a loop all....
They are a repeated pattern of notes.
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Ornaments
Decorative notes that embelish a melody.
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Tempo
The speed of the music
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Syncopation
When notes are played of the beat.
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Cross Rhythm
The effect produced when two conflicting rhythms are heard together.
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Polyrhythm
When two or more rhythms with different pulses are heard together
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Homophonic
When two or more parts play together in harmony
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Polyphonic
Two or more dependent melodic voices/parts.
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Hetrephonic
Complex monophony, where there is one basic melody, but other parts are playing more complex and different versions of the same melody.
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Woodwind, Brass, String, Percussion and Keyboard.

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What are the main groups of instruments?

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Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass

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Card 4

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Two or more notes sounding together

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Card 5

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The chord built on the first note of the scale

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