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MIRTH DATES Flashcards

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How can you describe a melody?

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Ascending or descending?
High or low pitched?
Wide or narrow range?
Moving in leaps or steps?
Scales: major / minor / blues / chromatic / modal / atonal
Devices:
repetition/ motifs / ostinato / ornaments / sequence

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How can you describe the articulation?

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HOW ARE THE NOTES BEING PLAYED?
staccato?- short and detached
Legato?- smooth and connected 
Accented notes?
Pizzicato- plucked with fingers?
Arco- played with a bow? Slurred?
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How can you describe the dynamics?

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HOW LOUD OR SOFT IS THE MUSIC? WHAT HAPPENS TO THE VOLUME?
pp- pianissimo 
p- piano
mp- mezzo piano
mf- mezzo forte
f- forte
ff- fortissimo 
crescendo or diminuendo?
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How can you describe the texture?

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HOW ARE THE INDIVIDUAL PARTS OF A PIECE WORKING TOGETHER?
thick or thin? Complex or simple?
monophonic or polyphonic or homophonic or heterophonic or polarised?
Melody and accompaniment? countermelody?
Unison?
Drone or pedal note?
Continuo?
Call and response?
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How can you describe the structure?

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HOW MANY SECTION ARE THERE IN THE PIECE AND WHAT ORDER?
Form??- binary (AB)? Ternary (ABA)? Rondo (ABACADA)?
Sonata? Concerto?
Verse-chorus? Bridge? Pre chorus? Solo? 12 bar blues?

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How can you describe the harmony?

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Major or minor key?
Diatonic or chromatic?
Consonant or dissonant?
Key changes or modulations?
Cadences: perfect / imperfect/ plagal / interrupted?
A particular sequence? Eg. I - IV - V
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What can you say about the instruments?

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dEsCribE wHat inStrUmEnTs yoU hEar

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How can you describe the rhythm?

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Duration - long or short notes?
Pulse and beat?
Semi quavers / quavers / crotchets / minims / semibreves?
Syncopation? Dotted rhythms? Triplets?
Cross rhythm? Polyrhythms?
Upbeat? Anacrusis? Rests?Tied notes?
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How can you describe the time and tempo?

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Regular or irregular metre?
Simple or compound time signature? 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 12/8, 5/4 etc

TEMPO- fast or slow?
Largo, moderato, andante, allegro, presto, accelerando, rallentando
Rubato- speeding up or slowing down?

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How can you describe the effects used in music?

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Autotune, panning, reverb, amplification, delay, drum loops, sampling, sampling, synthesiser

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