Tuning the Tune
The main tune of a piece of music, often the part people sing along to
What is melody?
This is the name for the basic unit of time in music. It’s the steady pulse that you tap your foot to.
What is the beat?
This is how high or low a sound is.
What is pitch?
This term describes how loud or soft the music is.
What are dynamics?
When two notes are played together and they sound harsh or unstable, this is called this.
What is dissonance?
This term means how fast or slow the music is.
What is tempo?
This is the term for how many musical sounds or notes are happening at the same time.
What is texture?
This dynamic marking means to play softly.
What is piano?
A sequence of three notes stacked on top of each other, often played together, is known as this.
What is a chord?
This form of music has the same section (A) repeated, then a contrasting section (B), and then A again.
Binary form
When only one melody is playing with no accompaniment, this is the texture.
What is monophonic texture?
This is a distinct way of expressing or performing music.
What is style?
This is when a song has multiple notes played at the same time, like playing piano keys together.
This is how we place our notes in time, or the pattern of sounds and silences in music.
What is rhythm?
This term refers to a space between two notes, like from C to D.
What is an interval?
This dynamic term means to play very loudly.
What is forte?
When the melody goes up in pitch, we call it this.
What is ascending?
This form is when you repeat the same theme but change it in some way, like changing the rhythm or melody.
What is theme and variation?
This texture is when you have multiple melodies playing at the same time.
This style of music uses a lot of improvisation and syncopated rhythms, and often includes instruments like the trumpet and piano.
What is jazz?