MUSIC VOCAB #1- organisation of pitch, tonality, form/structure, texture, tempo/metre/rhythm

Conjuct

Stepwise movement

Disjunct

Non stepwise movement

Dissonance

Clashing / unpleasant chords

Drone

Sustain of a note or interval in non classical music

Ground bass

Repeating phrase in bass

Melodic device

Compositional method for melody ( eg arpeggio, conjunct)

Ornamentation

Elaborating musical line (mordants, trills)

Ostinato

Repeated Musical pattern

Pedal note

Not played in bass insulation tonic or dominant

Riff

Same as ostinato but for pop music

Sequence

Repetition of melody

Theme

Melody all of piece based on

Atonal

Not in key

Modal

Tonality based on modes

Mode

Scale

Pentatonic

Based on 5 note scale

Binary

Two sections

Rondo

ABACA

Sonata form

Classical period - exposition, development, recapitulation

ternary form

Three sections

Sonority

Nature / quality of music sounds

Articulation

Way note is played (kinda) eg- staccato

Basso continuo

Bass line in barque (low string instruments)

Heterophony

Two+ parts playing same melodic line simultaneously

Homophony

Melody with accompaniment

Monophonic

one melody

Polyphonic

Many sounds together

Imitation

Share the same melodic idea (imitating melodic idea)

Swung rhythm

Two notes of same value 'swung ' usually in jazz

Syncopation

Strong note occurring on weak beat of bar