CCEA A-Level Music AS Unit 3 Responding to Music overview quiz quiz

Music for Orchestra 1700-1900

Music for film since 1980

Electronic dance music

Indian classical raga

The symphonic poem

The concerto grosso

The film score

The string quartet finale

Gradual crescendo and diminuendo

A very wide expressive range with rubato

Terraced dynamics: sudden shifts between loud and soft

No dynamics at all

The subdominant

The dominant

The relative minor

The tonic

A verse anthem is always slower

A full anthem has no organ

A verse anthem alternates solo verse sections with full-choir sections

A full anthem uses only one voice part

One note per syllable

Many notes to one syllable

Singing without words

Speaking the text in rhythm

Verse-chorus form

Through-composed form

Ground bass form

Thirty-two-bar AABA form

A slow, lyrical, emotional number

A fast production number for the chorus

A spoken scene with no music

An instrumental overture

Imperfect cadence

Interrupted cadence

Perfect cadence

Plagal cadence

I

IV

vi

ii

Pitch first, then ignore the rhythm

Pulse and metre, then rhythm, then pitch against the key, then check

Write the last note first and work backwards

Guess the whole melody at once

I, IV and V

ii, iii and vi

I, V and vi

IV, V and vii

Root position

First inversion, with the third in the bass

Second inversion, with the fifth in the bass

A dominant seventh in root position

F sharp major

G major, the dominant

E flat major

B major

A repeating rhythmic pattern

A sustained note, usually in the bass, held under changing harmony

A sudden change of key

A type of cadence