Unit 1 & 2

Question 1

What is pulse?

Answer 1

Steady continuous beat

Question 2

What is rhythm

Answer 2

The pattern of long and short sounds

Question 3

What is body percussion?

Answer 3

When we use our bodies to create sounds

Question 4

What is an ostinato?

Answer 4

A repeated pattern of notes throughout a piece of music

Question 5

What is pitch?

Answer 5

How we describe how low or high a note is

Question 6

What is solfa?

Answer 6

A way to describe the pitches of notes using syllables

Question 7

What is legato?

Answer 7

Joined together/ smooth notes

Question 8

What is staccato?

Answer 8

detached notes

Question 9

What is dictation?

Answer 9

The skill of listening to music and being able to write down what you hear

Question 10

What is a score?

Answer 10

the written form of a musical composition

Question 11

What is a graphic score?

Answer 11

Any picture, diagram, drawing or symbol that is used to represent music

Question 12

Success criteria of a graphic score

Answer 12

-Score key
-Dynamics
-Tempo
-Time
-Pitch

Question 13

What are phrases?

Answer 13

Musical sentences