Elements Of Music - Part Two Flashcards
What is the relative minor of D major?
What is the key signature?
B minor
F sharp and C sharp
What is the relative minor of A major?
What is the key signature?
F sharp minor
F sharp, C sharp and G sharp
What is the relative minor of E major?
What is the key signature?
C sharp minor
F sharp, C sharp, G sharp, D sharp
What is the relative major of B flat major?
What is the key signature?
G minor
B flat and E flat
What is the relative minor of E flat major?
What is the key signature?
C minor
B flat and E flat and A flat
What is the relative major of A flat major?
What is the key signature?
F minor
B flat and E flat, A flat and D flat
What are the various techniques and devices used within melodies?
▪️Balanced phrases - where all phrases are 2, 4 or 8 bars long
▪️q and a phrases - two balanced phrases that compliment each other
▪️repetition
▪️sequence - a short pattern of notes immediately repeated at a different pitch
▪️imitation
▪️countermelody - another melody played at the same time as the main melody
What are the simple time signatures?
2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 3/8, 2,2
What are the compound time signatures?
6/8, 5/8, 7/8, 8/8
What key type does most western music have?
A home or tonic key
What modulations are there?
To the Dominant, to the subdominant, to the relative major and to the relative minor
What are the different types of ornament?
▪️trill -where two adjacent notes alternate really quickly
▪️mordent -where there is just one quick alternation of notes that are adjacent (a mini trill)
▪️acciaccatura -a crushed note where a note is played really quickly before the next note
▪️turn -notes that literally turn around the main note really quickly
What are the different range of voice?
▪️Soprano-high female
▪️alto-low female
▪️tenor-high male
▪️bass-low male
Name 6 rhythmic features
Syncopation, dotted rhythms, cross rhythms, anacrusis, ostinato and triplets
What is syncopation?
Where the music plays against the beat rather than on the beat
What is dotted rhythms?
Where the rhythms are uneven creating a ‘long-short’ feel
What are cross rhythms?
Where two or more contrasting rhythms are played at the same time
What is anacrusis?
An upbeat where 1 or more notes occur before the 1st beat of a bar
What is an ostinato?
A pattern repeated over and over again
What are triplets?
Where a crotchet beat is split into three
Give the name of larger structures in music
▪️Concert- one solo instrument with an orchestra
▪️concerto grosso -two or more solo instruments accompanied by an orchestra
▪️symphony -orchestra only
▪️sonata- a piece for a solo instrument accompanied by a keyboard
What are large structures?
Compositions with three or four movements
Give the smaller structures in music
▪️binary- two sections AB
▪️ternary- 3 sections ABA
▪️rondo - 5 or more sections ABACA or ABACADA
▪️verse chorus structure - similar verses with a contrasting chorus
What is moderato
At a moderate speed
