Year 10 Music Tech Exam Revision

Note Length

Quaver (Half a beat)

Semiquaver (Quarter of a beat)

Crotchet (1 Beat)

Minim (2 Beats)

Semibreve (4 Beats)

Bass + Treble Clef

Bass

Treble

FACE

EGBDF (Every Good Boy Deserves Football)

GBDFA (Great Big Dogs Frighten Albert)

ACEG

Musical Forms

Variation

Strophic

Rondo

Minuet

Ternary

Binary

Usually performed as A-A-B-B (Uses AB)

Usually performed as ABA

Usually performed as episodes where one section reoccurs, such as (ABACADAEA)

Variation is an important element in each section.

Also known as verse repeating, it is where verses or stanzas of the text are sung to the same music.

A form where the music subsequently develops, it is usually a longer form of music called minuet and trio

Music Devices (Usually in film music)

Dotted Rhythm, A rhythm in which the beat is unequally subdivided into a long dotted note and a short note.

Pedal, it is a single note that is held on or repeated in the bass.

Canon, it is where a melody is played and then imitated (one or more times) after a short delay.

Conjunct/Disjunct movement, it is the interval between two consecutive scale degrees. Any larger interval is called a skip or disjunct motion.

Broken Chord, A chord where the notes are played consecutively

Motif, it is a short musical idea that reoccurs

Imitation , like it's name it is repeating the same melody as if it was imitating it.

Syncopation, it involves a variety of rhythms which make part or all of a tune or the entire piece off-beat.

Ostinato, A repeated pattern of notes

Sequence, it is the repeated version of a motif at a higher or lower pitch in the same voice

Drone, It is when a note is played to accompany the melody/most of the piece

Arpeggio, it is a musical technique where notes in a chord are played or sung in sequence rather than ringing out.

Modulation, where you change from one key to another.