What is Area of Study 2 about?

Music made by small groups playing or singing together

What three jobs does a rhythm section do?

Provide harmony, bass and beat for the soloists

A Welsh tradition where a singer improvises a counter-melody over a harp playing a known tune

A clear melody supported by chords moving together

Several independent melodic lines weaving together at once

Two groups answering each other, like call and response

Two or more parts playing decorated versions of the same melody at the same time

Homophonic backing is chordal and moves with the melody; melody and accompaniment has a distinct backing

To add variety and contrast, build or release tension, or highlight a soloist

No, the two questions use unfamiliar extracts

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What is Area of Study 2 about?
Which instruments make up a string quartet?
What three jobs does a rhythm section do?
What is cerdd dant?
Which texture is a single melodic line with no harmony?
What is homophonic texture?
What is polyphonic, or contrapuntal, texture?
What is antiphony?
What is heterophony?
Which genre features a front line of soloists improvising over a rhythm section?
What is the difference between homophonic texture and melody and accompaniment?
Why might a composer change the texture during an ensemble piece?
A canon is a special form of which texture?
Is there a set work for Area of Study 2?