AoS4 - Timbre and Dynamics

Question 1

Instruments and voices singly and in combination as found in music for solo instruments, concertos, chamber groups, pop and vocal music

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Question 2

Generic families of instruments as found in world music

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Question 3

Timbre, including the use of technology, synthesized and computer-generated sound, sampling, and use of techniques such as reverb, distortion and chorus

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Question 4

Instrumental techniques including con arco (with a bow), pizzicato (plucked), con sordino (muted), double-stopping, tremolo and tremolando.

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Question 5

Vocal techniques such as falsetto and vibrato.

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Question 6

Explaining the graduation of dynamics as follows:

• pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff
• cresc., crescendo, dim., diminuendo
• sfz, sforzando
• ‘hairpins’

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Question 7

common signs, terms and symbols

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