Musical Elements and Analysis overview quiz - WJEC A-Level Music quiz

The melody moves mainly by step

The melody moves mainly by leap

The melody has no clear pitch

The melody is played backwards

A melodic idea restated at a higher or lower pitch

A single sustained note

A sudden change of instrument

A rest at the end of a phrase

Atonal

Diatonic

Modal

Bitonal

Harmony using only the white notes of the piano

Harmony using notes and chords from outside the key for colour and tension

Harmony with no chords at all

Harmony built only on a single drone

A mode such as Dorian or Mixolydian, rather than major or minor

No key centre at all

Only the chromatic scale

A 12-bar blues only

AB

ABA

ABACA

AABA

ABACA, with the main theme returning between episodes

AB, two contrasting sections only

A single through-composed line

Verse and chorus alternating

By a cadence in the new key

By changing the instrument

By a single passing chromatic note

By a key signature change alone, with no cadence

A single melodic line with no harmony

A melody with chordal accompaniment

Several independent melodic lines woven together

Variants of one melody sounding at once

A melody plus block chords

Two or more independent melodic lines together

A single unaccompanied line

A drone with no melody

Accents placed off the main beat

A steady beat with no accents

A slow tempo throughout

A single repeated pitch

A three-against-two rhythmic effect

A chord of the diminished seventh

A scale with no semitones

A solo cadenza

The colour of the sound and the instrumental or vocal tone

The key of the music

The number of bars in a phrase

The speed of the music

Because change in texture, dynamics and key helps define the structure

Because the elements never actually change

Because only the first bar is ever marked

Because change is forbidden in the exam