The cards Question What is chord vi in a major key? Tap to flip Answer The relative minor chord. Question What is a relative minor? Tap to flip Answer The minor chord or key that has the same key signature as a major key. Question What is the relative minor of C major? Tap to flip Answer A minor. Question What is the tonic? Tap to flip Answer Chord I: the 'home' note and chord of a key, and the note the key is named after. Question What is the dominant? Tap to flip Answer The fifth note of a scale, or the chord built on it (chord V). Question What is a root position chord? Tap to flip Answer A chord in which the root note is the lowest note. Question What is a chord inversion? Tap to flip Answer A chord whose notes are reordered so that the root is not the lowest note. Question What can chord vi add to a chord sequence in a major key? Tap to flip Answer A brief suggestion of minor tonality, adding complexity and interest. Question Why is the bass part crucial to harmony? Tap to flip Answer It emphasises key notes in each chord and determines the chord inversions. Question In which clef is the bass part usually notated? Tap to flip Answer Bass clef. Question Why should most chords in a chord sequence be in root position? Tap to flip Answer Root position chords anchor the music in the key; some inversions can then add interest and variety. Question What is an interval? Tap to flip Answer The distance in pitch between two notes, e.g. a fifth. Question What is a chord tone? Tap to flip Answer A note that is included within a chord. Question What is disjunct movement in a melody? Tap to flip Answer Movement by leap: intervals larger than two semitones. Question What is balanced phrasing? Tap to flip Answer Melodic phrases of equal length with complementary melodic shape. Question What is balanced phrasing also called? Tap to flip Answer 'Question and answer' form. Question What is melodic shape? Tap to flip Answer The overall shape of a melody: where it ascends or descends and where it is conjunct or disjunct. Question Give one disjunct interval that tends to be most effective in a melody. Tap to flip Answer e.g. a 3rd, a 5th or an octave. Question Between which kind of notes should any disjunct movement jump? Tap to flip Answer Chord tones. Question Which interval is the exception that does not work effectively as a disjunct leap? Tap to flip Answer Sevenths. Question Balanced phrasing is a key feature of melodies in which tradition? Tap to flip Answer Western classical music. Question Which chord feels finished: the tonic or the dominant? Tap to flip Answer The tonic (chord I). Question What is an imperfect cadence? Tap to flip Answer Where part of a chord sequence finishes on the dominant chord (V), which feels unfinished. Question What is an anacrusis? Tap to flip Answer When a melody starts before the downbeat (beat 1). Question In a typical 16-bar classical melody, which bars hold the contrasting section? Tap to flip Answer Bars 9-12. Question How does the contrasting section of a typical 16-bar classical melody usually end? Tap to flip Answer On chord V, creating an imperfect cadence. Question What do bars 13-16 of a typical 16-bar classical melody usually do? Tap to flip Answer Copy the melody and harmony of bars 5-8, ending with a perfect cadence. Question Which instruments make up a string quartet? Tap to flip Answer Two violins, a viola and a cello. Question What is harmony? Tap to flip Answer How different notes and chords work together. Question What is an instrument's range? Tap to flip Answer The range of pitches the instrument is capable of playing. Question What is voicing? Tap to flip Answer How the notes in a chord are spread out on an instrument or between instruments. Question What is pizzicato? Tap to flip Answer A string technique in which the player plucks the string with a finger. Question In a string quartet, which instrument normally plays the melody? Tap to flip Answer The first violin. Question In a string quartet, which two instruments play the harmony? Tap to flip Answer The second violin and the viola, splitting the remaining chord tones. Question When voicing chords between second violin and viola, what makes them sound effective? Tap to flip Answer Avoiding large intervals between the two instruments and keeping the chords from being very low or very high. Question What is a countermelody? Tap to flip Answer A second melody, equally prominent, played at the same time as the main melody. Question What is texture in music? Tap to flip Answer How many layers of music are playing and how they fit together. Question What is a melody and accompaniment texture? Tap to flip Answer A texture with a clear melody and separate accompanying lines. Question In a string quartet, which instruments normally play countermelodies? Tap to flip Answer The second violin or viola (sometimes the cello). Question How does a countermelody differ from an accompaniment? Tap to flip Answer A countermelody is as prominent as the main melody; an accompaniment is not, and is usually based on repeating patterns. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Music Unit Fundamentals of composition: extended 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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