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National 5 Music Prelim Concepts Flashcards

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Chamber music

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Small group of instruments

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Backing vocals

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Singing in the background for a soloist

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Baroque

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Early music uses harpsichord

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A capella

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Unaccompanied singing

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Bothy ballad

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Silly Scottish song telling story-MALE, unaccompanied

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Celtic rock

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Scottish music with strong rock beat

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Harmony

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Playing different notes at the same time

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Concerto

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Soloist and orchestra

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Compound time

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“Jiggity, jiggity” beats divided into 3s

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Time signatures

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2/4 3/4 4/4 6/8

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Descant

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2nd tune above main melody

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Piano, p

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Quiet

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F major

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One flat (Bb)

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Cresendo

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Getting louder

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Aria

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Solo song from musical/opera

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Gaelic psalm

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Scottish unaccompanied church singing (awful)

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Instruments of the orchestra

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Woodwind, brass, string and percussion

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Gospel

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Sister act style church music

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Diminuendo

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Getting quieter

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C major

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No sharps or flats

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G major

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One sharp (F#)

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Choir

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Group of singers

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Minimalism

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lots of repetition, 20th C style

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Melismatic

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More than one note per syllable

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Major

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Bright or happy sounding

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Latin American

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Strictly come dancing music

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Minor

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Sad, eerie sounding music

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Musical

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Large performance with singing, acting etc popular style

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On beat/off beat

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Strong beat of bar either on beats 1 and 3 or 2 and 4

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Staccato

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Short detached

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Opera

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Large work with singing, acting etc classical style

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Arco

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With the bow

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Pizzicato

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Plucked

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Col legno

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With the wood of the bow

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Alto

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Low female voice

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Legato

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Smooth

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Simple time

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“Keep it simple” each beat is divided into 2s

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Ragtime

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Syncopated music - the entertainer

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Rap

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Speaking to music

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Rock

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Heavy pop music

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Scat singing

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Nonsense words in jazz music

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Scots ballad

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Scottish solo song

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Allegro

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Fast and lively

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Andante

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Slow

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Strophic

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Verse, chorus same music each time

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Adagio

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Slow

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Moderato

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Medium

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Rallentando

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Slowing down gradually

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Accelerando

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Speeding up gradually

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Walking bass

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Bass line in jazz/blues which plods along

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Swing

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Jazz music with improvisation

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Tenor

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High(ish) male voice- most common

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Voice order

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Soprano
Mezzo soprano
Alto
Tenor
Baritone
Bass
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Soprano

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Highest female voice

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Forte, f

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Loud

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Symphony

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Orchestral music

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Unison

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Singing same notes at the same time

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Baritone

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Low male voice between tenor and bass

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Waulking song

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Scottish song with beat - call and response, female

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Mezzo soprano

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Medium female voice, between alto and soprano

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Bass

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Deep very low male voice

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Mezzo forte, mf

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Moderately loud

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Syllabic

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1 note per syllable

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