The cards Question What are the dates of the Baroque period? Tap to flip Answer 1600 to 1750. Question What is the continuo? Tap to flip Answer The accompaniment section of the Baroque orchestra, normally harpsichord and a bass stringed instrument such as cello. Question What is ornamentation? Tap to flip Answer A performer decorating a melody with extra notes, e.g. trills or turns. Question What are terraced dynamics? Tap to flip Answer Dynamics that change suddenly rather than gradually. Question What is a contrapuntal texture? Tap to flip Answer A polyphonic texture with two or more interweaving melodic lines. Question What are Baroque melodies often like? Tap to flip Answer Long and flowing, decorated with ornamentation. Question Give one key Baroque genre. Tap to flip Answer e.g. trio sonata, suite, prelude and fugue, concerto or overture. Question Is all Baroque music contrapuntal? Tap to flip Answer No. Contrapuntal textures were very common, but Baroque textures were varied. Question What are the dates of the Classical period? Tap to flip Answer 1750 to 1820. Question What is a symphony? Tap to flip Answer A long composition for orchestra, usually in four shorter pieces (movements). Question What is balanced phrasing? Tap to flip Answer Melodic phrases of equal length with complementary melodic shapes. Question Which texture is typical of Classical period music? Tap to flip Answer Melody and accompaniment. Question What are Classical period melodies typically like? Tap to flip Answer Simple, with limited ornamentation and balanced phrasing. Question What form does the first movement of a Classical symphony use? Tap to flip Answer Sonata form. Question What are the three sections of sonata form? Tap to flip Answer Exposition, development and recapitulation. Question What is the third movement of a Classical symphony often? Tap to flip Answer A minuet and trio. Question What is a sonata? Tap to flip Answer A three-movement composition for a solo instrument. Question How does a sonata differ from sonata form? Tap to flip Answer A sonata is a three-movement solo piece; sonata form is a structure (exposition, development, recapitulation), normally used in a sonata's first movement. Question For which instruments in particular did the sonata become a key genre in the Classical period? Tap to flip Answer Keyboard instruments. Question Roughly what are the dates of the Romantic period? Tap to flip Answer About 1820 to 1910. Question What is programme music? Tap to flip Answer Music that tells a story or creates an image of something. Question What is a leitmotif? Tap to flip Answer A short musical idea that represents a character, place or idea. Question What does virtuosic music do? Tap to flip Answer Shows off a performer's technical skill. Question Besides symphonies and concertos, which orchestral genre became key in the Romantic period? Tap to flip Answer The tone poem. Question Give one Romantic composer who exploited the piano's expressive and virtuosic qualities. Tap to flip Answer e.g. Chopin. Question Is the name 'Romantic' about love and romance? Tap to flip Answer No. Romantic composers focused on expression, emotion and evocative moods, only sometimes linked with love. Question What is a polyphonic texture? Tap to flip Answer A texture with more than one equally important melodic line. Question What is a melody and accompaniment texture? Tap to flip Answer A melody with a clearly separate accompaniment. Question What is diatonic music? Tap to flip Answer Music that uses only notes based in the key. Question What is chromatic music? Tap to flip Answer Music that uses notes from outside the key, creating more complex harmony. Question What is modulation? Tap to flip Answer A change of key during a piece of music. Question What was Baroque and Classical harmony like? Tap to flip Answer Diatonic, emphasising modulation to closely-related keys. Question What was Romantic harmony often like? Tap to flip Answer Chromatic, with experiments in more complex modulations and chords. Question What is atonal music? Tap to flip Answer Music that has no key or tonic note. Question Where and when did minimalist music emerge? Tap to flip Answer In the USA in the 1960s. Question What defines minimalist music? Tap to flip Answer Repetition of minimal musical ideas. Question What is non-functional harmony? Tap to flip Answer Harmony in which chords do not have their traditional roles, e.g. V resolving to I. Question What is experimental music? Tap to flip Answer Music that radically challenges what we think of as 'normal' music. Question What is an ostinato? Tap to flip Answer A short, repeating musical idea (plural: ostinati). Question Give one example of experimental music that challenged core principles of the Western Classical Tradition. Tap to flip Answer e.g. silent music or chance music. Question What is minimalist music mostly based on? Tap to flip Answer Repeating ostinati and gradual changes, mostly in diatonic harmony. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Music Unit The Western Classical Tradition: 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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