The cards Question What is disjunct movement in a melody? Tap to flip Answer Movement by leaps. Question What is conjunct movement in a melody? Tap to flip Answer Movement by steps, e.g. tones and semitones. Question What is an interval? Tap to flip Answer The distance between two notes. Question What is articulation? Tap to flip Answer How a note is played, e.g. legato, staccato or accented. Question Can the notes of disjunct intervals be placed anywhere in a melody? Tap to flip Answer No. Like conjunct intervals, they need a sense of order and should be used in some sort of pattern. Question Give one element that can make a melody expressive. Tap to flip Answer E.g. appropriate tempo, dynamics or articulation. Question What is a chord progression? Tap to flip Answer A repeating pattern of chords, also called a chord sequence. Question What is harmonisation? Tap to flip Answer Adding notes or chords to a melody to provide harmony. Question What is a triad? Tap to flip Answer A chord of three notes from the scale: the root, third and fifth. Question What is dissonance? Tap to flip Answer When notes clash, so the harmony sounds uncomfortable and feels as if it needs to resolve. Question What is a chord inversion? Tap to flip Answer When the notes of a chord are rearranged so the root is no longer the lowest note. Question Give one way to create dissonance in a chord progression. Tap to flip Answer Using chords that are not triads, or occasional melody notes from outside the chord. Question Give one way to add interest to a chord progression. Tap to flip Answer E.g. broken chords or chord inversions. Question When composing, must the chord progression come before the melody? Tap to flip Answer No. You can start with chords and add a melody, or start with a melody and add chords. Question Are harmony and chords the same thing? Tap to flip Answer No. Harmony includes all the parts in the music, including the melodic line, not just the chords. Question What is an ostinato? Tap to flip Answer A short, repeated pattern. Question In composition, what is a polyrhythm? Tap to flip Answer Two or more independent rhythmic patterns played at the same time. Question What is syncopation? Tap to flip Answer A rhythm that emphasises notes between the main beats, often by half-beat rests on the beat or dotted rhythms. Question What can using an ostinato or repeated patterns give a piece of music? Tap to flip Answer A sense of unity. Question Is a single note duration, such as a crotchet, a rhythm? Tap to flip Answer No. An individual note duration is not a rhythm. Question What is a monophonic texture? Tap to flip Answer A texture with only one layer of sound. Question What is a melody and accompaniment texture? Tap to flip Answer A texture with a clear melody and a separate accompaniment. Question What is the most common musical texture? Tap to flip Answer Melody and accompaniment. Question What is a polyphonic texture? Tap to flip Answer One with two or more equally important but independent melodies. Question How can less important lines contrast with the melody in a melody and accompaniment texture? Tap to flip Answer By using less interesting rhythms and melodic shapes. Question Does a piece of music have one fixed texture all the way through? Tap to flip Answer Not necessarily. Pieces often have sections where the texture changes. Question What is timbre? Tap to flip Answer The distinctive sound of an instrument or voice, also called sonority. Question What is idiomatic writing? Tap to flip Answer Composing for an instrument or voice in a way that makes the best use of its distinctive properties. Question Give one thing that matters in idiomatic writing for an instrument. Tap to flip Answer E.g. its range, its intervals, or how it can be played. Question What is vibrato? Tap to flip Answer When the pitch fluctuates up and down very slightly to intensify the sound and add expression. Question Does an instrument have only one timbre? Tap to flip Answer No. An instrument can have a few different timbres. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Music Unit Free composition: Creative starting points Exam boards AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, OCR England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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