Music year9

What are features of 20th century music

Dissonance

Irregular rhythms

Ostinato

Angular melody leaps

Different uses of instruments

Irregular time signatures

Percussion and celesta

Unusual combinations of instruments

What is ostinato

Repeated patterns- can be rhythmic or melodic

What are different ways of playing instruments

Key clicking

Pizzicato

Singing into instuprument

Pitch bending

Flutter tonguing

muting

Glissando

Col legno

Prepared piano

What different types of scales are there

Major

Minor

Chromatic

Whole tone

Modes

Pentatonic

What is a chromatic scale

Moving in semitones

What is a pentatonic scale

5 note scale

What is dissonance

Clashing

What is consonant

Notes ‘agree’ with each other

What is diatonic

A normal major or minor scale

What different accompaniment styles are there

Drone

Ostinato

Riffs

What is a drone

A sustained or repeating note sounded against chainring harmony

What are riffs

A repeating pattern which changed with the chord sequence

What other playing techniques are there

Tremolo

Trill

Glissando

Pizzicato

Legato

Staccato

What is tremolo

Using the bow of a string instrument very quickly to create a ‘trembling’ sound

What is a trill

A rapid alternation of two different pitches

What is a glissando

A slide from one pitch to another

What is a pizzicato

Playing strings by plucking the strings with your fingers

What is legato

A smooth performance of music

What is staccato

Short, detached notes

What different forms are in music

Binary

Ternary

Rondo

What is binary form

AB

What is ternary form

ABA

What is rondo form

ABACA

Concepts of indian music

Raga

Sitar

Tabla

Tambura

What is raga

A scale in Indian music

What is a sitar

Plucked a string instrument, improvised melodies using a particular raga

What is a tabla

A pair of single headed drums

What is a tambura

A plucked stringed instrument which plays the drone

When was rock and roll music used

1950s - music of the younger generation

What chords are used in rock and roll

Basic chords, often uses 12 bar blues chord pattern

What is the typical line up in a band for rock and role

Piano, bass, drum-kit, vocals, lead or rhythm guitar

What is the use of riffs in rock and roll music

Short, repeated patterns, which change with the chords and usually heard in the bass part

What is scat singing

When the singer uses nonsense syllables