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Music Concepts
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Music Concepts
Scottish Music
- Styles
- March
- Strong stead pulse
- Two or Four beats in a bar
- Speed suitable to march to
- Reel
- Dance written in simple time
- Two or four beat in a bar
- Major key
- Fast tempo
- Can be heard dividing equally into groups of two or four
- Waltz
- Three beats in a bar
- Simple time
- Jig
- Fast dance in compound time
- Mostly 2 beat in bar
- Mouth music
- Gaelic or nonsense words
- Unaccompanied
- Pentatonic
- Any five note scale
- Folk music based
- C D E G A
- Scotch snap
- Very short accented note before a longer note
- Scots ballad
- Scottish song which tells a story
- Strathspey
- A Scottish dance with 4 beats in bar
- Usually featuring the Scotch snap
- Vamp
- Rhythmic accompaniment with a base note played
- Beat and a chord off the beat
- March
- Groups
- Folk groups
- Groups of singers and instrumentalists who perform traditional music
- Instruments include: Fiddle, Whistle, guitar, accordion and pipes
- Scottish dance band
- Band which plays Scottish music for people to dance to
- Instruments may include fiddle, accordion, piano and drums
- Folk groups
- Styles
Vocal music
- Choir
- A group of singers who perform together
- Harmony
- Sound of two or more notes made at the same time
- Musical
- A play which has speaking singing and dancing
- Solo
- One instrument or voice
- Prominent instrument or voice
- Can be solo even when part of a larger ensemble
- Unison
- All singers/musicians in a group singing or playing the same note at the same time
- Backing voicals
- Singers that support the lead singer
- Cadenza
- Passage of music which allows soloist to display their technical ability
- Mouth music
- songs with Gaelic or nonsense words
- Scat singing
- Nonsense words, syllables and sounds and improvised by the singer
- Verse and chorus
- Structure/ form popular in many songs. The music of the verse is repeated
- Types of voices
- Alto
- Lowest female voice
- Bass
- Highest range of female voice
- Soprano
- High-pitched male voice
- Tenor
- Lowest male voice
- Alto
- Choir
20th century music
- Styles
- Blues
- Often in 4/4
- mostly Patterned on a 12 bar structure
- Scale where some notes are flattened
- Discord
- Chord in which certain notes clash
- Improvisation
- Performer makes up music during the performance
- They do not have the melody written down
- Jazz
- Music may feature: Syncopation and inprovisation
- Pop
- Style of popular music
- Riff
- Repeated phrase usually found in jazz and popular music
- Rock
- Style which is heavy driving beat
- Rock 'n' roll
- Styles combined of jazz, blues, gospel and country
- Ragtime
- Syncopation
- Steady pulse
- Vamp
- Scat singing
- Nonsense words
- Syllables and sounds are improvised
- Blues
- Atonal
- music has no feeling of key
- Music is very dissonant
- Lack in accompaniment
- Cluster
- when a group of notes clash
- Notes played togeather
- Walking bass
- Bass line low notes
- Notes go for walk up and down pattern
- Mostly played on double bass (plucking)
- Minimalist
- simple rhythmic and melodic figures
- Repeated with very slight changes each time
- Styles
Tempo/dynamics/rhythms/notation
- Tempo
- Adagio
- Slow tempo
- Allegro
- Fast tempo
- Pause
- Note or rest that is held longer than written
- Slower
- Tempo decreases
- Accelerando
- Gradually becomes faster
- Rallentando
- Music gradually slows down
- Moderato
- Medium tempo
- Ritardando
- Music slows down
- Rubato
- Speed up and slow down
- Adagio
- Rhythms
- Accented
- Accented notes are notes which sound louder than others ">"
- Beat
- The basic pulse you hear in music
- Off the beat
- Notes played on the weaker beat
- On the beat
- Notes played on the stronger beats
- Anacrusis
- The note which appears before the strong beat of a musical phrase
- Compound time
- The beat is divided into groups of three "Lollipop"
- Simple time
- The music has two, three or four beats in each bar
- Each beat can be divided into 2
- "Sim-ple"
- Cross rhythm
- Term used to describe the effect of two notes being played against three
- Dotted rhythm
- A long note followed by a shorter one or a short note followed by a longer one
- Accented
- Dynamics
- Crescendo
- Music becomes louder
- Diminuendo
- Music becomes quiter
- Forte
- Loud volume
- Piano
- Quite volume
- Mezzo forte
- Fairly loud (mf)
- Mezzo piano
- fairly quiet (mp)
- Pianissimo
- Very soft (pp)
- Fortissimo
- Very loud (ff)
- Sforzando
- Sudden accent
- Crescendo
- Tempo
Methods of playing
- Accompanied
- Instruments or voice support the main melody
- Blowing
- Sound produced by blowing into or across the mouthpiece of the instrument
- Harmony
- Sound of two or more notes made at the same time
- Plucking
- Sound made when you pluck the strings with your fingers
- Striking
- Sound is produced by hitting the instrument
- Strumming
- Finger, Fingers are drawn across the string
- Unaccompanied
- There is no background instruments or voices
- Unison
- All singers/musicians in a group singing or playing the same notes at the same time.
- Accompanied
Musical periods and styles
- ABA
- Three part form
- A Then B then back to A
- Baroque
- Harpsichord
- 1600-1750
- Concerto
- A work for solo instrument and orchestra
- Three movement
- Romantic
- Period 1810-1900
- Arpeggio
- Note of a chord played one after other
- Canon
- Strict imitation
- One part starts to play or sing melody, other part enders
- Imitation
- Where the melody is immediately copied in another part
- Pedal
- Note which is sustained or repeated continuously
- ABA
Popular music styles
- AB
- Two part form
- A then B
- Binary
- Music is made up of two different sections
- A and B each section repeated
- Chord progressions
- Chords built on first, fourth, fifth and sixth notes
- Major or minor scale
- Modulation
- Change of key
- Minimalist
- Simple rhythmic and melodic figures
- Constantly repeated with slight changes
- Pitch bend
- Changing the pitch of a note
- Strophic
- Same music repeated for verses/choruses
- Music will be heard repeating throughout the song
- Rondo
- A B A C A
- A keeps returning
- AB
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