Texture and Melody

Question 1

Unison texture

Answer 1

Everyone sings/plays exactly the same thing at the same time

Question 2

Texture

Answer 2

How the different layers of the music weave together

Question 3

Imitative texture

Answer 3

One part copies or repeats what another musical part has just done

Question 4

Octave texture

Answer 4

The pitch of the instruments or singers is an octave apart

Question 5

Homophonic texture

Answer 5

The different parts of the music move together

Question 6

Layered texture

Answer 6

Sections of music that are repeated again and again are loops. When lots of loops are played at the same time this is layered texture

Question 7

Heterophonic texture

Answer 7

Two or more slightly different versions of the same melody played at the same time

Question 8

Canonic texture

Answer 8

Each part is the same and overlaps but they start at different times

Question 9

Antiphonal texture

Answer 9

Two groups of musicians who take it in turn to play in a kind of musical conversation

Question 10

Polyphonic texture

Answer 10

The different parts of the music are interwoven and are equally important. Different sound at the same time

Question 11

Monophonic texture

Answer 11

No accompaniment or harmony, just one line of melody

Question 12

Melody with accompaniment

Answer 12

Melody with instruments or singers accompanying to provide harmony

Question 13

Melody

Answer 13

The tune

Question 14

Disjunct melody

Answer 14

Lots of jumps and leaps

Question 15

Conjunct melody

Answer 15

Smooth, moves by step

Question 16

Modal melody

Answer 16

Uses notes from the ancient scales called modes

Question 17

Melodic sequence

Answer 17

When a melody is repeated at different pitches

Question 18

Whole tone melody

Answer 18

Uses notes from the whole tone scale- no semitones

Question 19

Arpeggio

Answer 19

First chord of the key with the last note played on top e.g CEGC

Question 20

Triadic melody

Answer 20

Uses notes of a triad e.g. CEG

Question 21

Aciaccaturas and Appoggiaturas

Answer 21

Ornaments-used to decorate melody. Short notes played quickly before the main notes of the melody

Question 22

Diminution

Answer 22

When a melody is made shorter by taking notes away or making them shorter

Question 23

Ornamentation

Answer 23

The decoration of the melody

Question 24

Chromatic melody

Answer 24

Uses some notes that don’t belong to scale

Question 25

Passing notes

Answer 25

Notes in between the main notes

Question 26

Inversion

Answer 26

When a melody is turned upside down

Question 27

Pentatonic melody

Answer 27

Uses notes from the pentatonic scale

Question 28

Harmonic sequence

Answer 28

When a pattern of chords is repeated

Question 29

Ostinato/riff

Answer 29

`Short repeated pattern

Question 30

Phrasing (need examples)

Answer 30

Describes how the melody should sound
Legato-smoothly
Staccato-short and detached
Slur-very smooth, no gaps
Sfozando-suddenly and quickly strong and loud

Question 31

Improvisation

Answer 31

Creating new music on the spot. Make it up as you go

Question 32

Augmentation

Answer 32

When a melody is made longer by adding notes or making notes longer

Question 33

Pitch bend

Answer 33

When the pitch of a note is raised or lowered slightly

Question 34

Slide/glissando

Answer 34

sliding from one note to another. Sometimes notes in between are played during the slide