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Year 11 Music 2

Music Terminology

Study Resources

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Part 1

• 1 Glossary

• 2 Flashcards

• 3 Quick Test

• 4 Quick Test Solutions

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Part 2

• 1 Glossary

• 2 Flashcards

• 3 Quick Test

• 4 Quick Test Solutions

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Part 3

• 1 Glossary

• 2 Flashcards

• 3 Quick Test

• 4 Quick Test Solutions

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Part 4

• 1 Glossary

• 2 Flashcards

• 3 Quick Test

• 4 Quick Test Solutions

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Part 5

• 1 Glossary

• 2 Flashcards

• 3 Quick Test

• 4 Quick Test Solutions

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Part 6

• 1 Glossary

• 2 Flashcards

• 3 Quick Test

• 4 Quick Test Solutions

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Part 7

• 1 Glossary

• 2 Flashcards

• 3 Quick Test

• 4 Quick Test Solutions

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Video Links

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• Aerophone

• How to Sing Alto

• Appoggiaturas - What Are They?

• What is Musical Articulation?

• The Difference Between Tonal & Atonal Music

• Rhythmic Augmentation and Diminution

• Backbeat

• Beat

• Beatboxing

• Binary Form

• Blues Scale

• Cadence

• Call and Response

• A Capella

• Choir

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• Chorus

• Chromatic Scale

• Coda

• Coloratura

• Consonant

• Contrast

• Countermelody

• Crescendo

• Decrescendo

• Delay

• Diatonic

• Diminuendo

• Dissonance 1

• Dissonance 2

• Drone

• Duration

• Dynamics

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• Ensemble

• Dynamics and Expressive Techniques

• Falsetto

• Forte

• Fortissimo

• Fugue

• Gamelan

• Harmonic Ostinato

• Harmonic Riff

• Harmonics

• Harmony

• Hemiola

• Heterophonic

• Homophonic

• Improvisation

• Legato

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• Mordents

• Melisma

• Melody 1

• Melody 2

• Membranophone

• Metre

• Mezzo Forte

• Mezzo Piano

• Mezzo Soprano

• Modes

• Modulation

• Monophonic Texture

• Motif in Music

• Notation

• Note Value

• Ornamentation

• Ostinato

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• Pentatonic Scale

• Phrasing

• Pianissimo

• Piano

• Pitch

• Polyphonic Textures

• Polyrhythm

• Raga

• Repetition

• Rhythm

• Rhythmic Motif

• Riff

• Rock Beat

• Rondo Form

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• Rubato

• Scale Degree Numbers

• Scat Singing

• Sforzando, Crescendo, Tremolo and More

• Slur

• Soprano

• Sprechstimme

• Staccato

• Strophic Form

• Subito

• Subito Piano

• Suspensions

• Swing Rhythm

• Symphony

• Syncopation

• Tempo

• Tenor Singing

• Tension

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• Tenuto

• Ternary Form

• Texture

• Theme and Variation Form

• Through-Composed Form

• Time Signature

• Tonal Centre

• Tonality

• Tone Colour (Timbre)

• Triads

• Trill

• 12 Bar Blues Form

• 12 Tone Row

• 20th Century Art Music

• Upper Mordent

• Verse-Chorus (Refrain) Form

• Vocal Vibrato 1

• Vocal Vibrato 2

• Vocoder

• Western Art Music: Eras

• Whole Note Scales

• World Music

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