Music Revision!

Music Revision!

1. The Four Families! Instruments of the Orchestra

   • String
     • violin
     • viola
     • cello
     • doublebass
     • harp
   • Woodwind
     • Flute
     • Oboe
     • Clarinet
     • Bassoon
   • Brass
     • Trumpet
     • French Horn
     • Trombone
     • Tuba
   • Percussion
     • Timpani
     • Glockenspiel
     • Cymbals

2. Keyboard Insrtuments!

   • ORGAN! Ranks ( pipes)
   • Harpsichord. Baroque era, plucked, no dynamics
   • Piano. strings hit, classical era, dynamics.

3. intervals!

   • Definition: Gap between two notes.
   • Count the notes between including the bottom note
   • 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th (8ve)

4. Chords!

   • Triads always look like traffic lights.
   • 2 or more notes played at the same time!
   • C, F, G, Am, Em, Treble Cleff
   • C, F, G, Am, Em Bass Clef

5. Scales!

   • Major scales are happy C D E F G A B C
   • Minor scales are sad C D Eb F G Ab B C
   • Chromatic scales play all the notes C C# D D# E F F# G etc

6. THE BLUES!

   • The Blues originated in the Southern States of the USA.
   • Blues songs were sung by slaves working on cotton plants.
   • The words were about sadness and misery.
   • Blues songs are based around the three chords I, IV and V OR C F and G
   • C C C C F F C C G F C C
   • The repeated bass line is called a riff.
   • Most of the melodies are improvised using the Blues riff

7. Baroque Era!

   • 1600 - 1750 Bach and Handel
   • Terraced Dynamics
   • Small Orchestra
   • Recorders
   • Harpsichord
   • Ornamentation

8. Note lengths and Rhythm notation!

   • Time signature tells you number of beats in a bar.
   • For example 2/3 3/4 4/4 time
   • Semibreve is 4 beats
   • Minim is 2 beats
   • Crotchet is 1 beat
   • Quaver is half a beat
   • Semi quaver is a qauter of a beat
   • Dotted minim is 3 beats