The cards Question What is a motif? Tap to flip Answer A short musical idea heard multiple times in a piece. Question What is a phrase in a melody? Tap to flip Answer A section of a melody, usually lasting 1, 2 or 4 bars. Question What is augmentation? Tap to flip Answer Lengthening all the notes of a melody by the same proportion. Question What is diminution? Tap to flip Answer Shortening all the notes of a melody by the same proportion. Question What is a sequence? Tap to flip Answer A melodic idea repeated at least three times, rising or falling in pitch each time. Question Most composers develop melodies to balance which two things? Tap to flip Answer Repetition and contrast. Question Give one simple way to develop a melody. Tap to flip Answer e.g. adding notes or changing rhythms. Question When is a changed melody a development rather than a totally new melody? Tap to flip Answer When it is still recognisable as related to the original. Question What is a trill? Tap to flip Answer An ornament that alternates rapidly between two notes. Question What is a mordent? Tap to flip Answer An ornament that creates the effect of a short trill. Question What is a grace note? Tap to flip Answer A very fast note played just before a main melodic note. Question What is a grace note sometimes called? Tap to flip Answer An acciaccatura. Question What is imitation? Tap to flip Answer A melodic device in which part of the melody is copied in another part, immediately or shortly afterwards. Question What is a countermelody? Tap to flip Answer A contrasting second melody played at the same time as the main melody, with equal prominence. Question Give one common ornament. Tap to flip Answer e.g. a trill, grace note, turn or mordent. Question How does imitation differ from a countermelody? Tap to flip Answer Imitation copies part of the melody, normally immediately; a countermelody usually contrasts with the main melody so it can be heard separately. Question What is diatonic music? Tap to flip Answer Music that uses only notes based in the key (e.g. C major or F minor). Question What is atonal music? Tap to flip Answer Music that has no key or tonic note. Question What is modal music? Tap to flip Answer Music based on modes, a type of scale different from major and minor scales. Question What is chromatic music? Tap to flip Answer Music that uses notes from outside the key. Question What is microtonal music? Tap to flip Answer Music that includes notes between the 12 Western semitones. Question What are the small intervals between the 12 Western semitones called? Tap to flip Answer Microtones. Question Many traditional styles around the world have which type of tonality? Tap to flip Answer Modal. Question If a piece has a key but uses notes from outside it, what is its tonality? Tap to flip Answer Chromatic. Question What is the simplest way to identify intervals by ear? Tap to flip Answer Compare them to reference songs. Question Which chord is the tonic in a key? Tap to flip Answer Chord I. Question Which chord is the dominant in a key? Tap to flip Answer Chord V. Question Which chord is the subdominant in a key? Tap to flip Answer Chord IV. Question What is a perfect cadence? Tap to flip Answer A V–I progression at the end of a section of music; it feels resolved. Question What is an imperfect cadence? Tap to flip Answer A section ending on chord V, which feels unfinished. Question Which chords make up a plagal cadence? Tap to flip Answer IV–I. Question Which two cadences feel finished? Tap to flip Answer Perfect and plagal. Question How can the tonic chord (I) be identified by ear? Tap to flip Answer By the 'finished' feeling it creates. Question What helps you tell a perfect cadence from a plagal cadence by ear? Tap to flip Answer Listening for the bass notes. Question What is a pedal? Tap to flip Answer A bass note that stays the same while the chords change above it. Question What is a drone? Tap to flip Answer A sustained sound that plays underneath other parts. Question What is a ground bass? Tap to flip Answer A bass pattern that repeats while the upper parts develop above it. Question What is a modulation? Tap to flip Answer A change of key during a piece of music. Question What is a suspension? Tap to flip Answer A note held over a chord it does not fit with, creating dissonance. Question What are suspensions used to create? Tap to flip Answer Harmonic tension and resolution. Question For a true modulation, what must change? Tap to flip Answer The tonic: it must feel like the tonic itself has changed. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Music Unit Understanding melody and harmony 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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