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Key vocab for students studying GCSE music
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How many instruments are playing in a trio?
3
1
everyone
2
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What is a monophonic piece of music made up of?
All instruments playing one tune with slight variations
One melody, no harmony
More than one melody/chord playing at the same time
Melody and chords moving at the same time
3
What is the name of this decoration?
inverted turn
upper mordent
lower mordent
turn
4
What does tutti mean?
Everyone together
Everyone
All instruments
Nobody
5
What is a cadenza?
An ending to a concerto
Solo performance, with an orchestra accompaniment
The orchestra playing together
solo performance, no orchestr
6
How many instruments are playing in a duet?
3
1
everyone
2
7
What is the name of this decoration?
lower mordent
upper mordent
turn
inverted turn
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What doe through-composed mean?
Loud and quiet in places
Same melody for each verse
New melody for each verse
Progresses in steps
9
What does it mean if a piece of music is described with "rit"?
happy
slow(er)
difficult
fast
10
What is the musical term fro "getting quieter"?
Crescendo
Dimunition
Diminuendo
Piano
11
How would you best describe the structure rondo?
A and B variations
AABB
A and B repeats
ABACADAEA
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What is a homophonic piece of music made up of?
More than one melody/chord playing at the same time
One melody, no harmony
Melody and chords moving at the same time
All instruments playing one tune with slight variations
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What is the timbre?
The dynamics
The sounds made by instruments
The different instruments
Percussion instruments
14
What does melismatic mean?
lots of notes to a syllable
moving in steps
moving in leaps
one note to a syllable
15
What is the name for a repeated melodic pattern played in the bass line?
Figured bass
Grosso continuo
Walking bass
Ground bass
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What is texture?
Volumes in music
Harmonies in music
Layers in music
Melodies in music
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What is the speed of music called?
Tempo
Metre
Dynamics
Forte
18
What is the main tune in a piece of music called?
Melody
Monophonic
Accompanient
Forte
19
How would you be playing a song if you played it in retrograde?
backwards and upside down
backwards
upside down
faster
20
What is binary form?
A and B repeats
ABA
AABB
ABACADA
21
How many instruments are playing in a quartet?
3
2
4
everyone
22
What does the harmonic device drone consist of?
Primary triads
2 notes
1 note
Arpeggios
23
Who plays the concertante in a concerto?
Soloist(s)
Tutti
The cello
The main orchestra
24
What is it called if you repeat a melodic pattern not higher or lower?
Imitation
Transposition
Sequence
Dimunition
25
What is a coda?
A soloist ending a concerto
solo performance, no orchestr
The orchestra playing together to finish a concerto
Solo performance, with an orchestra accompaniment
26
What does dimunition mean?
Paying notes twice as loud
Playing notes at half the length
Playing notes half as often
Playing notes at double the length
27
What is it called when a soloist plays with/against an orchestra?
Single concerto
Concerto grosso
Concerto solo
Solo concerto
28
What does syllabic mean?
moving in leaps
lots of notes to a syllable
moving in steps
one note to a syllable
29
What is an antecedent?
Call and repeat
Call and response
A question, followed by a consequence
Imitation
30
What is it called when a string instrument plays more than one note at once?
rit
double stopping
virtuoso
crescendo
31
What is a cross-rhythm?
playing triplets against duplets
slowing down and speeding up music (to fit the tempo again)
playing two independent rhythms at the same time
creating the effect of another metre
32
What is rubato?
playing two independent rhythms at the same time
creating the effect of another metre
slowing down and speeding up music (to fit the tempo again)
playing triplets against duplets
33
What is conjunct movement?
one note to a syllable
lots of notes to a syllable
moving in leaps
moving in steps
34
What is a piece of music with melody and accompaniment made up of?
One melody, no harmony
Melody and chords moving at the same time
All instruments playing one tune with slight variations
one main melody with an accompaniment :)
35
Which word best describes the overall plan of a piece of music?
Texture
Repeats
Structure
Dynamics
36
who plays the ripieno in a concerto?
the main orchestra
cello and harpsichord
tutti
Cello
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what does ripieno mean?
repeat
louder
the orchestra
filling
38
How many instruments are playing in a solo piece?
everyone
3
1
2
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What does tessitura mean?
moving in leaps
one note to a syllable
moving in steps
The range of notes used
40
What is the dynamic marker for "loud"?
Cello
LOUD
.Piano
Forte
41
What is it called if you replay your melodic pattern starting on a completely different note?
Seuence
Transposition
Dimunition
Augmentation
42
What is the name of this decoration?
turn
lower mordent
inverted turn
upper mordent
43
What is a polyphonic piece of music made up of?
All instruments playing one tune with slight variations
Melody and chords moving at the same time
One melody, no harmony
More than one melody/chord playing at the same time
44
How would you best describe syncopation?
Offbeat rhythms
Funky
Dotted rhythms
Long and short note values
45
What would a cadence describe?
The pitch of a song
The end of a song
The dynamics of a song
The beginning of a song
46
What are dynamics?
The pitch of music
The sound of music
The volume of music
The speed of music
47
What is the name for dynamics that do not build up gradually, but happen all at once?
Dimunition
Terraced dynamics
Forte
Crescendo
48
Which of the following best describes ternary form?
Melody and accompaniment
ABA
AABB
ABACADAEA
49
What is the dynamic marker for quiet?
quiet
violin
piano
sshh
50
What is the name of this decoration?
augmentation
trill
appoggiatura
acciccatura
51
What is the tonality?
The key
The sound
The timbre
The different instruments
52
What does the harmonic device pedal consist of?
1 note
Arpeggios
2 notes
Primary triads
53
What is a bi-rhythm?
slowing down and speeding up music (to fit the tempo again)
playing two independent rhythms at the same time
creating the effect of another metre
playing triplets against duplets
54
What doe strophic mean?
Same melody for each verse
New melody for each verse
Loud and quiet in places
Progresses in steps
55
What is the name for a short, repeated melodic rhythm?
Ostinato
Melody
Riff
Accmpaniment
56
What is a hemiola?
creating the effect of another metre
slowing down and speeding up music (to fit the tempo again)
playing triplets against duplets
playing two independent rhythms at the same time
57
What does it mean if a piece of music is virtuosic?
difficult
happy
slow(er)
fast
58
What does augmentation mean?
Playing notes at half the length
Playing accented noted
Playing notes at double the length
Playing notes an octave higher
59
What does it mean if a piece of music is contrapuntal?
It has lots of dynamics
It moves from monophonic to polyphonic
It makes you feel different ways
It has lots of accents
60
What is disconjunct movement?
moving in steps
lots of notes to a syllable
moving in leaps
one note to a syllable
61
What is a heterophonic piece of music made up of?
All instruments playing one tune with slight variations
One melody, no harmony
More than one melody/chord playing at the same time
Melody and chords moving at the same time
62
What is a tune that is played, an then replayed starting a fifth higher or a fourth below?
Transposition
Fugue
Gigue
Sequence
63
What is it called when soloists plays with/against an orchestra?
Grosso concerto
lots of concertos
Concerto grosso
Solo concerto
64
What is the name of this decoration?
inverted turn
upper mordent
turn
lower mordent
65
What is the name of this decoration?
trill
acciccatura
augmentation
appoggiatura
66
What does ritornello form consist of?
Tutti
The main orchestra
episodes
Episode and tutti repeats
