Pitch
Duration
Structure
Texture
Tone Colour
100

This is what it's called when multiple notes are played at the same time

What is harmony?

100

This refers to how long a sound goes for. Some examples are 1/4 note or semiquaver

What are note values?

100

This compositional structure utilises verses, choruses, and bridges but may include other song sections as well

What is song form?

100

This texture has a single melodic line and no other pitched material

What is monophony?

100

A wind instrument

What is an aerophone?

200

This is a chord that is made up of three notes

What is a triad?

200

This refers to music speeding up

What is accelerando?

200

This structure (mostly aligned with art music) has an A section, followed by a B section, then returns to A material

What is ternary form?

200

This texture has a single melodic line and additional pitched material supporting it

What is homophony?

200

A stringed instrument

What is a chordophone?

300

This is what it's called when you perform a chord by playing each note separately instead of as a block

What is arpeggio?

300

This time signature is also called common time

What is 4/4?

300

Anacrusis is an example of which category of structure?

What is micro-structure?

300

This texture has multiple melodic lines

What is polyphony?

300

A percussion instrument that is not a drum

What is an idiophone?

400

This is what it's called when a voice moves from one note to another note more than a tone away

What is leaping motion?

400

This compositional technique moves accented beats off the pulse

What is syncopation?

400

This compositional structure has a number of repeated verses but no chorus

What is strophic form?

400

This is the role in a song that is taken up by sounds that are not necessarily musical

What are sound effects?

400

A percussion instrument that has a skin that you hit

What is a membranophone?

500

This is the academic name for a key change

What is modulation?

500
This performance technique means that the performer does not need to stay strictly within the confines of perfect time

What is rubato?

500

This compositional structure flows from one section to the next without returning to previous material

What is through-composed?

500

This is the name given to multiple voices performing the same line

What is doubling?

500

This is the name given to the -phone classification of instruments

What is Hornbostel-Sachs?