The cards Question What is rhythmic dictation? Tap to flip Answer Listening to a rhythm and writing it down using notation. Question What does it mean to verbalise a rhythm? Tap to flip Answer To turn it into words, using words to represent note values and patterns. Question What is a note value? Tap to flip Answer How long a note lasts for. Question What is the note value of a crotchet? Tap to flip Answer One beat. Question In rhythm verbalisation, which note value does 'ta' represent? Tap to flip Answer A crotchet. Question In rhythm verbalisation, what does 'ta di' represent? Tap to flip Answer A pair of quavers. Question A minim and a crotchet both use one syllable when verbalised. How do you tell them apart? Tap to flip Answer Count how many beats the note lasts for. Question What is a syncopated rhythm? Tap to flip Answer A rhythm that accents notes between the main beats, often using half-beat rests on the beat or dotted rhythms. Question How long does a dotted quaver last? Tap to flip Answer Three quarters of a beat. Question What is compound time? Tap to flip Answer Time in which each beat is divided into three quavers rather than two (e.g. 12/8). Question Which verbalisation helps identify quaver rests in syncopated rhythms? Tap to flip Answer 'Rest-di'. Question How do you count the quavers in compound time? Tap to flip Answer In groups of three: '1 and a 2 and a' and so on. Question In any time signature, what must the note values in a bar add up to? Tap to flip Answer The correct number of beats in the bar. Question What is melodic dictation? Tap to flip Answer Listening to a melody and writing it down. Question What is melodic shape? Tap to flip Answer How a melody ascends and descends and where it is conjunct or disjunct. Question What is a conjunct melody? Tap to flip Answer One that moves by small intervals (semitones or tones). Question What is a disjunct melody? Tap to flip Answer One that moves by intervals larger than a tone. Question How can melodic shape be represented visually? Tap to flip Answer With a line. Question With disjunct intervals, what must you listen for? Tap to flip Answer Whether they are large or small leaps. Question What is an interval? Tap to flip Answer The distance in pitch between two notes (e.g. a 5th). Question What is a semitone? Tap to flip Answer The smallest interval in most Western music (e.g. C to C#). Question How many semitones make a tone? Tap to flip Answer Two (e.g. C to D). Question What is another name for a tone? Tap to flip Answer A major second. Question What can you compare an interval with to identify it by ear? Tap to flip Answer Reference melodies. Question Besides its size, what must you work out about an interval you hear? Tap to flip Answer Whether it is ascending or descending. Question Why is singing or humming useful when identifying intervals? Tap to flip Answer Hearing the interval back lets you compare it with reference melodies. Question How can a whole melody be notated by ear? Tap to flip Answer By breaking it into a series of consecutive intervals. Question Give one way to check a pitch dictation answer. Tap to flip Answer e.g. match it visually to the melodic shape, or sing it back. Question When the rhythm is given in a pitch dictation, what should you do with it? Tap to flip Answer Copy it accurately in the notated pitches. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Music Unit Listening: dictation Exam boards 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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