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Quick questions on Texture, structure and form: SQA Advanced Higher Music concepts
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What is hear the texture?Show answer
Texture is how the parts combine. Contrapuntal (polyphonic) texture weaves two or more independent melodic lines together. Imitative texture has one part state an idea that another part then copies, overlapping. Homophonic texture is a melody supported by chords.
What are hear the contrapuntal forms?Show answer
Some forms are defined by their counterpoint. A fugue opens with a subject stated alone, answered by the other voices entering in turn (the answer), then alternates episodes (freer linking passages) with further entries of the subject in different keys. A canon is strict, continuous imitation: each voice copies the leader exactly throughout. A ground bass repeats a bass line while the upper parts change.
What are hear the larger forms?Show answer
The large forms organise whole movements. Sonata form has an exposition (first subject in the tonic, second subject in a related key), a development (the material taken through keys) and a recapitulation (both subjects back, the second now in the tonic). Rondo alternates a recurring main theme with contrasting episodes (ABACA). Theme and variations states a theme then varies it repeatedly.
What is q1?Show answer
What is a ground bass? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What are the three main sections of sonata form, and what defines them? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
How does a canon differ from a fugue? [1 mark]
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