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Year 11 Mock Exam Concepts Flashcards

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Rondo

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ABACA, A would be the rondo theme.

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Minuet and trio

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Ternary form structure, “minuet, trio, minuet”. Minuet is a dance and trio is a contrast that shows a reduction on instrumental parts
Often played by a classical orchestra.

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Sinfonia

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An Italian symphony

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Tempo

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Speed of the music

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Ternary

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3 part structure

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Theme and variation

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A main theme followed by variations base on the theme

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Bridge passage

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A linking passage between 2 parts of a piece that may modulate in preparation.

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First subject

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First theme or melody

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Second subject

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Second theme or melody

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Texture

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The number of plants in a piece and how they relate to one and another

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Augmentation

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Doubling or more of the original note values

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Chromatically

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Moving up or down by semitones

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Semitones

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The distance between a note and the one right next to it

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Romanticism

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Artistic movement. In Europe 1800-1900 focusing more on emotions.

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Virtuoso performer

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Someone who has learned an art skill to become extremely skilled.

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Soft pedal

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Softens the tone of a piano

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Sustaining pedal

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Taking the dampener off so the Strings vibrate freely

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Cantabile

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In a singing style

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Rubato

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Free movement of tempo that allowed

Players to express the feeling or emotion of the piece

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Fugue

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A texture involving polyphonic writing or a structure with exposition, middle entries and final entries.

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Impressionist

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A style of music focusing on experience and emotion rather than accurate depiction

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Atonal

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Has no key

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Klangfarbenmelody

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Describing how timbre rhythm and pitch contributes to melody

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Treaty of Versailles

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A peace settlement after world war 1

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Complement

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12 semitones not involved in the hexachord

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Hexachord

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6 notes that are used as the motif or chord for a piece

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Principle voice

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Main melodic line

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Secondary voice

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Second most important line

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Inversion

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Turning part upside down so it is a mirror image of the melody

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Retrograde

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Reversing the order in which pitches are heard

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Enharmonic

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Same note, different name

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Burlesque

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Parody or humorous piece

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Vaudeville

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Songs were performed with alternative words

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Opera bouffe

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Light opera with comical content

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Operetta

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Light opera

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Extraveganza

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Stage shows with a variety of acts

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Melodramas

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Dramas where music is used to punctuate the spoken lines

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Minstrelsy

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White dudes mimic black slaves, and poke fun at White people

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Cells

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Short musical ideas

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Phasing

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Where 2 or more. Versions of a sound are played out of sync and eventually come back together

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Note addition and subtraction

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Minimalist way of developing cells by taking or adding notes to a cell each time to create a slow and gradual development

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Loop

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Something that can be repeated over and over using electronics

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Modal

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Modern scales or keys

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Resultant melody

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A new melody made from many melodies played together

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Tonal ambiguity

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Where the tonality of a piece is uncertain

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Ragtime

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Music characterised by syncopated melodies and regularly accented accompaniment

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Blue note

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A bent note between a minor and major third

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Bebop

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A jazz style that includes fast tempos and complex harmonies

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Big band

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Jazz style for big ensembles

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Swing

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A term to describe the rhythmic groove of jazz music

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Changes

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Chord sequence in jazz

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Head

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Main melody of a jazz song

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Modal jazz

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There soloists base their solos on modes instead of chord changes

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Front line

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Solo instruments in jazz ensemble

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Mordant

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Ornament that is a quick succession of 3 notes

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Chord substitution

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Replacing one chord with a likely similar chord

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Turnaround

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A chord pattern at the end of a sequence that links back to the start of the sequence

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Altered chord

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A chord where 1 notes has been changed by a semitones

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Extend chord

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Where notes have been added to the original triad

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MTV

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A TV channel dedicated to music vids

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Soundscape

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Music that manipulates the timbre and texture to create a musical landscape

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Overdubs

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Use of multitracking to layer escorted parts

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Drone

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A note repeated and sustained over chord changes creating dissonance

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Power chords

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A chord played by guitars containing root and perfect fifth

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Delay

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A delay of the sound to create Seon effect

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Equalisation

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Boosting or cutting specific sounds electronically

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Flanger

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Swirling sound like a jet engine made electronically

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Slide

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Guitar playing technique where the finger slides from one note to another

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Oral tradition

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Songs passed on via hearing not with written scores

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Protest song

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Songs with political lyrics

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Fusion

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Blending together of 2 genres of music creating a fused sound

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