ELEMENTS AND CONCEPTS

Question 1

DURATION

Answer 1

THE RELATIVE LENGTHS OF SOUNDS AND SILENCES IN MUSIC

CONNECTED CONCEPTS:
* BEAT AND PULSE
* METRE
* ACCENT AND SYNCOPATION
* TEMPO
* RHYTHM

Question 2

EXPRESSIVE DEVICES

Answer 2

ways of influencing mood
and character of music

Connected Concepts:
* dynamics
* contrast
* instrumental and vocal techniques
* articulation

Question 3

PITCH

Answer 3

the relative frequency of sound:
* melody
* harmony
* tonality

Question 4

MELODY

Answer 4

the horizontal arrangement
of sound

Connected Concepts:
* melodic patterns
* melodic shape and contour
* motif
* intonation
* range and register

Question 5

HARMONY

Answer 5

the vertical arrangement of
sounds (describes the ways
in which combinations of
sounds progress
throughout a piece of
music)

Connected concepts:
* consonance and dissonance
* chord progressions
* countermelodies
* cadence

Question 6

TONALITY

Answer 6

the organisation of pitches
that establishes tonal
relationships

Connected Concepts:
* keys and modes
* scale forms
* modulation

Question 7

STRUCTURE

Answer 7

the form and design of
music

Connected Concepts:
* repetition, variety, contrast, development and unification
* treatment of thematic material
* multi-movement and contemporary structures

Question 8

TEXTURE

Answer 8

The density of sound

connected Concepts:
* monophony, homophony, polyphony, heterophony
* linear and vertical arrangement
* voicing
* sequencing and track layering

Question 9

TIMBRE

Answer 9

characteristic quality of
sound sources, or tone
colour

Connected Concepts:
* instrumentation
* instrumental and vocal techniques and devices
* manipulation of sound quality
* register