What does Area of Study 2 Music for Ensemble focus on?

Small-group music and how the parts combine, focusing on texture and sonority

What is texture in music?

How the musical lines combine (for example monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic)

The tone colour (timbre) of the instruments or voices

Two violins, a viola and a cello

A repeating twelve-bar chord pattern using chords I, IV and V

Flattened notes (often the third, fifth or seventh) that give the blues its sound

A long-short, loping quaver rhythm rather than even quavers

A number where several characters sing different lines at once

A pit band or orchestra (often strings, woodwind, brass, keyboard, bass and drums)

Notated classical instruments (such as a string quartet) with no drum kit

Identify the forces (the instruments or voices and how many parts)

Two or more independent, interweaving melodic lines

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