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Quick questions on Signs, terms and the score - SQA Higher Music
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What are italian performance directions?Show answer
Scores use Italian words for tempo, dynamics and expression. Tempo terms (adagio slow, andante walking, allegro fast), dynamic terms (piano soft, forte loud) and expression terms (dolce sweetly, legato smoothly, cantabile in a singing style) are standard. At Higher you are expected to know the common terms and read what they instruct, so a passage marked dolce e legato should be played sweetly and smoothly.
What is q1?Show answer
What does each of a sharp, a flat and a natural do? [3 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What do a widening and a narrowing hairpin instruct? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
What does the Italian term "legato" tell a performer? [1 mark]
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