Texture/Structure/Form

Question 1

what is AB/Binary

Answer 1

• a form of which the music is made up of two different sections labelled A and B

Question 2

what does rondo mean

Answer 2

• a form where the first section keeps returning between different sections

Question 3

what does alberti bass mean

Answer 3

• it’s a broken chord accompaniment in the bass, often used in keyboard music

• an example is AECE AECE AFDF AFDF

Question 4

what is coda

Answer 4

• a passage at the end of a piece which finishes it off

Question 5

what is contrapuntal

Answer 5

• a texture which consists of two or more independent melodic lines

• it’s similar to polyphonic

Question 6

what is an episode

Answer 6

• a passage which links two important ideas

Question 7

what is ground bass

Answer 7

• a theme in the bass which is repeated many times while the upper parts are varied

• a riff in the bass

Question 8

what does homophonic mean

Answer 8

• texture where you hear a melody with accompaniment or where all the parts play a similar rhythm at the same time

Question 9

what does strophic mean

Answer 9

• each verse of a vocal piece has the same music

Question 10

what is a walking bass

Answer 10

• a moving bass line with notes usually of the same value

• often found in jazz styles