Duration
The tempo is getting faster.
What is accelerando?
A scale using five notes.
What is a pentatonic scale?
The name of a section which commonly links two choruses together.
What is a Bridge?
Another name for Tone Colour.
What is Timbre?
The Italian term for very soft.
The exact doubling of note values.
What is augmentation?
The separation of notes in a chords, played one after another and not simultaneously.
What is a broken chord/arpeggio?
The name for a musical sentence.
What is a phrase?
Many different melodic layers being performed at the same time.
What is polyphonic?
To pluck the strings on a stringed instrument.
What is pizzicato?
An easy walking pace.
What is Andante?
The same melodic phrase performed up or down in pitch.
What is a sequence?
A structure which has a recurring A section between all other sections.
What is Rondo?
The third type of sound other than acoustic and electronic.
What is synthesised?
The term with the same meaning as decrescendo.
What is diminuendo?
I use rests, accents, ties and note values to be off the beat.
What is syncopation?
A continuous sustained note, particularly found in the bass line.
What is a pedal point?
The form where the melody is the same, but the lyrics change for each verse.
What is Strophic?
The texture that has one melodic line and only rhythmic accompaniment.
What is monophonic?
The sudden change of dynamics in the Baroque period.
What is terraced dynamics?
The feeling of grouping beats into two when in a triple metre.
What is a hemiola?
A second melody which is different and heard against the main melody.
What is a countermelody?
The form where each verse has a different melody and lyrics.
What is through-composed?
The world music name for an instrument that can be hit, shaken or scraped.
What is an idiophone?
The wavering of the pitch of a note going in and out of tune, which creates an expressive technique for string and wind instruments.
What is vibrato?