Electric Counterpoint

Question 1

What is the resultant melody?

Answer 1

The melody created as a result of all the different guitar parts being played at the same time

Question 2

Which part plays the resultant melody?

Answer 2

The live guitar

Question 3

What is a motif?

Answer 3

A really short fragment of music which is used throughout the piece

Question 4

What is note addition?

Answer 4

Playing just a few notes of the motif, then repeating it and each time adding in some more notes until the whole motif is being played

Question 5

What is an ostinato?

Answer 5

A repeated pattern

Question 6

What is an ostinato also known as?

Answer 6

A riff

Question 7

What is imitation?

Answer 7

When one part copies what another part has played

Question 8

What is metamorphosis?

Answer 8

Changing from one thing to another - such as when the melody changes as notes are added in one by one

Question 9

What two keys does Electric Counterpoint use?

Answer 9

E minor and C minor

Question 10

What is the technical term for changing key?

Answer 10

Modulation

Question 11

Electric Counterpoint doesn’t use a specific structure. How are changes between sections indicated?

Answer 11

Modulations / changing key

Question 12

How many guitars in total play in this piece?

Answer 12

10 (1 live guitar, 7 pre recorded electric guitars, 2 bass guitars)

Question 13

What is panning?

Answer 13

Sending a track to the left or right side speaker

Question 14

How are the various guitar parts separated out in order to make them easier to hear?

Answer 14

Panning

Question 15

What is the texture at the very start of the piece?

Answer 15

Monophonic because there is only one melody line playing

Question 16

What is the texture of the majority of this piece?

Answer 16

Polyphonic/contrapuntal

Question 17

How is the texture built up at the start of the piece?

Answer 17

Parts are added in one by one

Question 18

What does crescendo mean?

Answer 18

Getting louder

Question 19

What does p mean?

Answer 19

Piano/quiet

Question 20

What does mf mean?

Answer 20

Mezzo forte/Moderately loud

Question 21

What does f mean?

Answer 21

Forte/loud

Question 22

What does ff mean?

Answer 22

Fortissimo/very loud

Question 23

Which two key signatures is this piece in?

Answer 23

12 and 3

8 2

Question 24

What is rhythmic displacement?

Answer 24

When a motif is repeated but starts on different beat of the bar to the original motif

Question 25

When the guitars start playing they all play the 1 bar melodic motif but they each start playing on a different beat of the bar. What is this technique called?

Answer 25

Rhythmic displacement