Music Work / gcse

Music Work / gcse

1. Tempo and mood

   • Musical words
     • Larghetto
       • Still broad , not to slow 60-66
     • Adagio
       • Bit fast than largo 66-76
     • Andante
       • Walking pace 76-108
     • Moderato
       • Moderate speed 108-120
     • Allegro
       • Quick and lively 120-168
     • Vivace
       • Very lively - quick than allegro 168-180
     • Presto
       • Really fast 180-200

2. Clefs

   • Treble clef
     • Used for high pitched melody instruments
     • Soprano and alto voices
     • It all ways stays in the same place
   • Bass clef
     • Lower pitched instruments
     • All so used for bace voices
   • Vocal tenor clef / voices
     • It is the same but it has and 8 underneath it mean it is played and octave lower
     • Used by tenor voices and lead guitar parts
   • C clef
     • Middle point middle line alto clef / viola
     • C clef can make the middle clef move
     • It look like a capital B

3. Major scales

   • Ordinary scales have eight notes named
     • 1st note = tonic
     • 2nd note = supertonic
     • 3rd note = medians
     • 4th note = subdominant
     • 5th note = dominant
     • 6th note = submediant
     • 7th note = leading note
     • 8th note = tonic
   • Major scales all sound very bright and cheery
     • The c major scale is the only one with no black notes played
     • Tone / tone / semitone / tone / tone / tone / semitone

4. The voice

   • Female voicese
     • Hight pitch femail voice called soprano
     • Lower femail Bose is called contralto
     • Mezzo-sopranos Sing in the top of alto
   • Male voices
     • Higher male voice is called tenors
     • Low male voice is called basses
     • Men sing femail parts are called counter teners

5. Romantic composers

   • Stared to move away from tonality
   • Classical music is tonal the key melody is written In
   • Romantic composers used lot of chromatic Nots and cords
   • The romantic put in so many chromatic that their Music they started to lose the character
   • Lots of music lost did not belong to any key