Expressive Techniques
Contemporary Music specific
Small Fry
Scoring
Concepts
100
cantabile
song like
100
Term for chance music
aleatoric
100
tenuto
100
portamento - bend between pitches
100
How to spot the relative major/minor or modulations
accidentals
200
Identify the expressive technique:
pizzicato
200
Vocal style using ornamentation and melisma
silsulim
200
texture type with one melody plus harmony
homophonic
200
subito
immediately
200
word that describes the sound an instrument makes
timbre
300
Tranquillo
tranquil
300
Difference between a single jig and double jig
Single jig - 6/8 with repeating rhythmic pattern:
Double jig - repeating quaver rhythmic pattern:
300
piatti
cymbals
300
Eb/D
Eb major chord with a D root note
300
Texture non-negotiables
Type, density, entry
400
sul tasto
on the fingerboard
400
TWO features of minimalism in Water Crossing
ostinato
simple conjunct melodies
repetition of melodic ideas
400
Identify the instrument:
Cajon
400
Identify the modulation:
C major to G major
400
Three duration specific techniques
syncopation, hemiola, rhythmic augmentation/diminution, ostinato
500
down bow
500
THREE duration specific techniques in Orange and Olive Trees
rhythmic ostinato, changing time signatures, syncopation
500
tacet
silent
500
Identify the modulation:
A major to F# minor
500
Pitch non-negotiables
key, modulations, register/range.