Texture and Melody

Question 1

Accompaniment

Answer 1

The layers that go with the tune but are not tune itself

Question 2

Acciaccatura

Answer 2

An ornament that’s played as quickly as possible before the written notes

Question 3

Appogiatura

Answer 3

An ornament that clashes with the accompanying chord then resolves

Question 4

Blue notes

Answer 4

The flattened notes in blues scale

Question 5

Blues scale

Answer 5

A major scale with flattened 3rd and 7th

Question 6

Call and response

Answer 6

A shot melody followed by an answering phrase

Question 7

Canon

Answer 7

Where the same tune is played by two or more parts, each starting before the previous part has finished

Question 8

Chant

Answer 8

Singing in unison, similar to the rhythm of speech

Question 9

Chromatic scale

Answer 9

Includes all twelve notes of an octave

Question 10

Clef

Answer 10

In sheet music, a symbol at the beginning of a stave defining the pitch of the notes

Question 11

Counterpoint

Answer 11

Two or three independent melodic lines played at the same time

Question 12

Diatonic

Answer 12

Notes that belong to the main key of the piece

Question 13

Drone

Answer 13

A bass note held under a melody

Question 14

Enharmonic

Answer 14

Notes which sound the same but are written differently

Question 15

Expressivo

Answer 15

A direction to play expressively

Question 16

Glissando

Answer 16

Sliding between two notes

Question 17

Heterophy

Answer 17

Music that’s made up of two or more different versions of the same tune

Question 18

Homophony

Answer 18

Tune combined with chords

Question 19

Hook

Answer 19

A short memorable bit of tune

Question 20

Imitation

Answer 20

One voice or instrument copies another

Question 21

Interval

Answer 21

The distance in pitch between notes

Question 22

Inversion

Answer 22

Take tune and turn it upside down

Question 23

Legato

Answer 23

Smoothly

Question 24

Melismatic

Answer 24

A single syllable of text is sung over a succession of notes

Question 25

Mordent

Answer 25

A key that sounds sad

Question 26

Motif

Answer 26

A little bit of music that's often repeated and altered

Question 27

Octave

Answer 27

8 full tones above the key note

Question 28

Ornaments

Answer 28

Extra notes added to decorate the principle melodic tone

Question 29

Ostinato

Answer 29

A repeated phrase

Question 30

Passing notes

Answer 30

A linking note

Question 31

Pedal note

Answer 31

Held or repeated note lasting for a couple of bars usually on the tonic or dominant

Question 32

Pentatonic scale

Answer 32

A musical scale having five notes

Question 33

Phrase

Answer 33

A single line of music played or sung

Question 34

Polyphony

Answer 34

Combining a number of individual melodies

Question 35

Portamento

Answer 35

A mild glissando between two notes for an expressive effect

Question 36

Retrograde

Answer 36

Version of a tune where the notes are played in reverse order

Question 37

Riff

Answer 37

Short repeated phrase

Question 38

Round

Answer 38

A canon where the melody is sung in two or more voices. After the first voice begins, the next voice starts after a couple of measures are played in the preceding voices. All parts repeat continuously.

Question 39

Scale

Answer 39

Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending

Question 40

Sequence

Answer 40

Repetition of a phrase at a different pitches

Question 41

Slur

Answer 41

A curve over notes to indicate that a phrase is to be played legato

Question 42

Staccato

Answer 42

Short detached notes, as opposed to legato

Question 43

Syllabic

Answer 43

In song-tune has one note for each syllable

Question 44

Texture

Answer 44

How different parts relate to each other e.g. Monophonic, homophonic

Question 45

Triadic

Answer 45

Tune made up of broken chord patterns

Question 46

Trill

Answer 46

Rapid alternation between notes that are a half time or whole tone apart

Question 47

Turn

Answer 47

Ornament. Note/above/note/below/note

Question 48

Tutti

Answer 48

Passage for the entire ensemble or orchestra without a soloist

Question 49

Unison

Answer 49

Two or more voices or instruments playing the same note simultaneously

Question 50

Vibrato

Answer 50

When a note oscillates or wobbles to give a richer sound