Seachanges

Question 1

Inversion

Answer 1

When’s chord motif or melody is played upside down

Question 2

Retrograde

Answer 2

A line of Music places in reverse so that it is the same forwards as backwards

Question 3

Arco

Answer 3

An instruction to play with a bow

Question 4

Barton pizzicato

Answer 4

‘Snap pizzicato’ The string is pulled up and allowed to snap back to the fingerboard

Question 5

Col legno battuto

Answer 5

An instruction to a string player to strike the string with the wood of the bow

Question 6

Harmonic

Answer 6

An overtone, can be natural/artificial. Indicated by a circle/diamond above the stopped note.

Question 7

Glissando

Answer 7

To slide

Question 8

L.V. Laisser vibrer

Answer 8

Sound is allowed to vibrate until it dies away.

Question 9

Sul ponticello

Answer 9

An instruction to a string instrument to play near the bridge so as to produce a metallic quality sound. ( pont-pond-bridge)

Question 10

Sul tasto

Answer 10

Play on the fingerboard

Question 11

Pizz

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Answer 11

Left hand pizzicato

Question 12

Across the bridge

Answer 12

Play above the bridge

Question 13

Martellato

Answer 13

Hammered

Question 14

Serialism

Answer 14

A structured ‘series’ of notes which governs the development of a composition.

Question 15

Atonal

Answer 15

Not in any key

Question 16

Polytonality

Answer 16

A number of keys played together

Question 17

Timbre

Answer 17

Thé tonal quality or colour

Question 18

Dies irae

Answer 18

An ancient Gregorian chant (day of judgement)

Question 19

Danse macabre

Answer 19

Medieval dance of death

Question 20

Totentanz

Answer 20

The rhythm

Question 21

Crotales

Answer 21

Pitched percussion (tiny, antique cymbals)

Question 22

Marimba

Answer 22

Pitched percussion (a keyboard-like instrument with wooden bars and mellow sound)

Question 23

Guiro

Answer 23

Wooden instrument played by scraping a stick over notches on the surface

Question 24

Rainstick

Answer 24

A hollow stick with beads inside that you shake

Question 25

Flageolet (flag.)

Answer 25

Play harmonic

Question 26

3 note cell

Answer 26

(GAC)- at beginning at a high pitch, it’s notes intercepted with bars of silence, on piano,crotales,string,wind trémolo cello later.

Question 27

Compositional technique

Answer 27

Eg subtraction, inversion, retrograde, diminution