music gcse- wicked key terms revision

key features of a musical

song , dance

elphabas theme (bar number?)

20

motif

a common or recurring theme

unlimited theme (bar number?)

93

motif B (bar number)

20

motif C (bar number)

21

motif D (bar number)

49

metrical shifting (definition)

change in pulse rate / grouping

metrical shifting (bar number)

52 , 53

tonic in D major (bar number)

32

bitonality (definition)

2 keys played simultaneously

bitonality (bar number and keys)

88, G+C

homophonic

multiple voices moving together harmonically at the same pace

recitative

a singer adopts the rhythms and delivery of ordinary speech (speaking in a song)

tonality (of piece)

• verses and choruses in D maj

• modulation in bridge to G maj

• introduction reprise to F maj

augmented interval

semitone larger than a perfect interval

tremolando

wavering effect

colla voce

‘with the voice’- indication for non-vocal parts to follow the tempo of the singer

bare 5ths (definition)

a chord containing only a perfect fifth with no third

vamp

a repeating musical figure or accompaniment

coda

a passage that brings a piece to an end

hexatonic (definition)

any scale made up of six notes per. octave

hexatonic (bar number)

melody verse 2

ostinato

short melodic phrase repeated throughout a composition, sometimes slightly varied or transposed to a different pitch

metre (def)

the arrangement of rhythms in a repetitive pattern

metre (in piece)

• opening section-time signature changes from 3/2 triple time to 2/2 duple time

• bar 88- changes to 4/4 quadruple time

• bar 115- returns to 2/2 duple time