Music gcse - Star Wars key terms

Anacrusis

Upbeat before the start of new bar

Arpeggio

Broken chord

Atonal

Music with no key of any sort

Bitonality

the quality of two musical keys being played simultaneously.

Chordal

relating to music characterized more by harmony than by counterpoint

Cluster chord

Lots of different notes altogether (doesn’t work in an obvious way)

Diegetic music

Music that people, in film or tv, are listening to and audience are listening to

Extended chords

certain chords (built from thirds) or triads with notes extended, or added, beyond the seventh

Fanfare

Brass, triplets, polyphonic/chordal/monophonic, major key, leaps

Glissando

Playing all notes (ascending or descending)

Homophonic

Same sound

Homorhythmic

All playing at same time

Imitation

One instrument copies other instrument/part

Inverted pedal

Pedal note- but on top instead of underneath (inverted tonic pedal found in bar 1)

Dominant pedal

Pedal note of dominant (bar 12)

Leitmotif

A tune to represent a certain character

March

Army feel

Melody dominated homophony

Tune + accompaniment (bar 4)

Narrative

music which tells a story

Neapolitan chord

Flattened supertonic chord (bar 53)

Ostinato

Something that repeats over and over

Quadruple time

4/4

Quartal harmony

Chord Built on fourths

sequence (ascending or descending)

A phrase repeated slightly differently

Symphony orchestra

V big orchestra, romantic style

Syncopated

Off the beat

Tam tam

Gong- (bar 42)

Tremolando

with a wavering effect (Bar 1)

tertiary relationship

principally uses chords based on thirds

underscoring

soft soundtrack theme that accompanies the action in a performance