You are about to answer 30 questions about the vocabulary you need to know for the GCSE listening exam. You will see a key word or a definition and you will have to write your answer in 10 seconds. Then you will get the answer and the next slide will appear. Good luck!
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Unaccompanied choir
A Capella
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Music written with several different parts for different instruments.
Polyphonic
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A group of singers usually comprising sopranos, altos, tenors and basses
Choir
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Extra force given to a marked note. Indicated with a > above the note
Accent
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An increase, or accelleration of the tempo, or pace of a piece
Accelerando
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Briefly define Opera
Musical Drama with singers on stage and instrumental accompaniment
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Name 4 percussion instruments
Side drum, Bass drum, xylophone, glockenspiel, wood block etc
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When a stringed instrument is played not with a bow, but plucked with the fingers
Pizzicato
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To play with a flexible tempo
Rubato
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A group of three instruments including: A piano, a violin and a cello
Trio
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Very fast, faster than Allegro
Presto
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The highest female voice
Soprano
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Music written in only one voice, or with only one melody line throughout the range of instruments
Monophonic
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When a note is played a semitone down from its natural state
Flat
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Name 3 brass instruments
Trumpet, trombone, tuba, cornet, horn, etc
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A group of four string instruments including: two violins, one viola and a cello
String Quartet
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Sharp
When a note is played a semitone up from its natural note
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A combination of notes including one or more dissonant intervals". This means a combination of notes that don't sound 'right' together
Dischord/Atonal/Dissonant
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Symbols at the beginning of a stave showing which notes are to be played flat or sharp throughout a piece of music
Key Signature
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The lines upon which music notation is written
Stave
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Music without a sense of key
Atonal
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Texture. Melody + Chordal accompaniment
Homophonic
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Where the opening pattern of a musical phrase played by one voice or instrument is copied in another, not necessarily at the same pitch