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Question 1

Cadence

Answer 1

The ending of a phrase, section or peice of music using particular intervals and chords to suggest it is either finished or unfinished; the chord combinations are perfect, imperfect, plagal and interrrupted.

Question 2

Call and Response

Answer 2

Similar to a ‘conversation’, a piece of music in which a phrase is played or sung and a response by an instrument or vocalist follows; a common form in gospel music.

Question 3

Choir

Answer 3

Group of singers, usually singing in harmony; sometimes in SATB
(soprano / alto / tenor / bass) form

Question 4

Chordophones

Answer 4

Intruments that use strings for sound production; a classification of instuments of world music.

Question 5

Chorus

Answer 5

Group of singers singing in harmony in context of dramatic art, opera and musical theatre; also the repeated section after each verse in a piece of music that is in verse / chorus form.

Question 6

Chromatic Scale

Answer 6

A scale that consists of all 12 semitones.

Question 7

Climax

Answer 7

Achieved in music through the build-up of the concepts of music, such as the dynamics increasing or the pitch getting higher, creating excitement.

Question 8

Coda

Answer 8

An ending to a piece of music or a song, where the music is musically resolved.

Question 9

Coloratura

Answer 9

The highest voice type in the female vocal range.

Question 10

Consonant

Answer 10

Harmonious sound that is easy on the western ear.

Question 11

Contrast

Answer 11

Anything in music that is new or different, changing or interesting; heard in the way a composer changes musical aspects throughout a piece of music to make it interesting or entertaining.

Question 12

Countermelody

Answer 12

A melody heard at the same time as the main melody.

Question 13

Crescendo

Answer 13

Gradually getting louder.

Question 14

Cross Rhythms

Answer 14

Conflicting rhythmic patterns played simultaneously (e.g. three against four) or conflicting metres (e.g. 3/4 against 4/4)