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Year 7 Exam Revision
Term | Definition |
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Tempo | The speed of music |
Duration | The length of sounds and silences in music |
Texture | The layers of sound. Lots of layers = thick sound. Texture types = homophonic, monophonic and polyphonic. |
Tone Colour | The quality of sound (descriptive words: bright, shimmery, rough, sad, dark etc) |
Pitch | How high or low the sounds are |
Structure | The way the music is set out (for example, the song has an introduction, a verse and a chorus). |
Piano | Soft |
Forte | Loud |
Crescendo | Gradually getting louder |
Decrescendo | Gradually getting softer |
Fortissimo | Very loud |
Pianissimo | Very Soft |
Homophonic Texture | Where parts are moving together (melody and chordal accompaniment) |
Monophonic Texture | One sound only |
What does a double bar line mean you have to do? | Finish the piece |
What are the note pitches used in the treble clef lines? | E, G, B, D, F (Every, Good Boy Deserves Fruit or Every Good Burger Deserves Fries) |
What are the note pitches used in the treble clef spaces? | F A C E (it spells face! Easy!) |
What do you call the five lines where notation is put on? | Staff or Stave |
A crotchet beat lasts for... | 1 beat |
A minim beat lasts for... | 2 beats |
A dotted minim beat lasts for... | 3 beats |
A semibreve lasts for... | 4 beats |
A quaver lasts for... | 1/2 a beat |