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Year 9 Pretest
Year 9 Pretest 2026
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Melody | The main tune of the song |
| What is melodic contour? | The shape of the melody |
| Riff | A riff is a repeated chord or melodic progression or refrain in pop, rock and jazz |
| Chord | A chord with 3 notes played simultaneously |
| Complex chord | Chords with more than three different types of notes. E.g. 7ths, (4 notes) 9ths, (5 notes) |
| The scale commonly used in Jazz and early Rock Songs | Blues scale |
| Ostinato | a repeated pattern |
| Pentatonic | 5 note scale often used in cultural music and Jazz and Rock |
| Broken Chords | Where the notes in the chord are played separately |
| Pitch | Highness and Lowness of notes |
| Duration | Length of notes, Time Signatures and Tempos, Rhythms |
| Timbre | The unique sound of an instrument eg Bright Trumpet |
| Structure | The sections of music eg in a pop song verse chorus form |
| Performing Media | The instruments that perform |
| Texture | If a piece is thin (sparse) minimal layers , thick (dense) many layers like an orchestra piece. |
| Tempo | Speed of the Music, and changes in speed usually used Italian words |
| Dynamics | Louds and Softs and Crescendos getting louder and Decrescendo getting softer |
| Percussion Family | Instruments that can be hit or shaken (idiophones) |
| String Family | Instruments that have strings |
| Brass Family | Instruments that have valves and slides |
| Woodwind | Instruments that have reeds and or edge tone and keys |
| Conductor | To keep the performers in time, change the tempo and control the dynamics and expression |
| Orchestra | Made up of the 4 families of the Orchestra, Brass, Woodwind, String and Percussion plays a variety of styles including film music. |
| Rock Music | Consists on a rock band, verse chorus and solo/instrumental/bridge |
| Verse | A section in a song that tells the story |
| Chorus | A section that is repeated in the song tells the main information and is usually my dynamic and vibrant than the verse |
| Bridge | A contrasting section in a song that happens after the verse and chorus |
| Solo | A section where an instrument features by playing a more virtuosic part. (Showing off) |
| Instrumental | Where instruments have a turn at demonstrating their skills |
| Score | Conductors use the score to read the music of the orchestra |
| Note Values | Duration of notes like minims crotchets or quavers |
| Quaver | 1/2 a beat |
| Minim | 2 beats |
| Semibreve | 4 beats |
| Crotchet | 1 beat |
| Rest | Slilence in music |
| Crotchet rest | 1 beat |
| Quaver Rest | 1/2 beat |
| Semibreve Rest | 4 beats |
| Semiquaver | 1/4 of a beat |
| Semiquaver Rest | 1/4 of a beat |
| Common Time | 4/4 time signature |
| 3/4 time | 3 beats in a bar (Waltz time) |
| 2/4 | Two beats in a bar |
| Time signature | Tells you how many beats in a bar and the type |
| Treble clef | Tells you the higher pitched notes notes instrument like flute and soprano voice |
| Bass Clef | tells you the lower notes eg bass guitar |
| Names of Notes on the spaces in the treble | F A C E |
| Names of Notes on the lines | E G B D F (every good boy deserves fruit) |
| Names of the Spaces in the bass Clef | A C E G ( all cows eat grass) |
| Names of lines in the bass Clef | G B D. F A (good birds don't fly away) |
| Motive | A short theme used in music (shorter than a melody) |
| 12 bar blues | A popular chord progession used in blues music and Jazz using the Chords I IV and V |
| A graph where music is written | Staff |
| How many lines are on the staff? | Five |
| How many spaces are on the staff? | Four |
| Which clef shows higher sounds? | Treble or G clef |
| Each line or space is used to show | the location of a certain pitch |
| These lines are added to show lower or higher notes | Ledger lines |
| Lines in the treble clef reading from bottom to top of the staff. | E G B D F (Every Good boy Deserves Fruit) |
| Spaces in the treble clef reading from bottom to top of the staff. | F A C E |
| Play repeating notes on the same | Static Contour |
| Play stepping up and down notes from | Stepwise or Scalic |
| Play skipping up and down notes from | Small Leap |
| The distance between two notes is called | Interval |
| A staff with a Bass or F clef shows notes for | Lower Pitched Instruments |
| Name the lines in the bass staff reading from bottom to top of the staff | G B D F A (Good Boy Don't Fly Away) |
| Name the spaces in the bass staff reading from bottom to top of the staff. | A C E G (All Cows Eat Grass) |
| This combines the treble and bass staves | Grand Staff |
| Treble Clef Line 1 | E |
| Treble Clef Line 2 | G |
| Treble Clef Line 3 | B |
| Treble Clef Line 4 | D |
| Treble Clef Line 5 | F |
| Treble Clef Beneath the Staff | D |
| Treble Clef Space 1 | F |
| Treble Clef Space 2 | A |
| Treble Clef Space 3 | C |
| Treble Clef Space 4 | E |
| Treble Clef Top of Staff | G |
| Bass Clef Space 1 | A |
| Bass Clef Space 2 | C |
| Bass Clef Space 3 | E |
| Bass Clef Space 4 | G |
| Bass Clef Top of Staff | B |
| Bass Clef Beneath the Staff | F |
| Bass Clef Line 1 | G |
| Bass Clef Line 2 | B |
| Bass Clef Line 3 | D |
| Bass Clef Line 4 | F |
| Bass Clef Line 5 | A |
| Phrase | A musical sentance |
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