GCSE music harmony vocabulary

If a harmony is dissonant it means it's

• Smooth

• Spikey

• Clashy

• harmonious

You know a chord is minor if it sounds

• Fast

• Sad

• Slow

• Happy

If you play a scale of all the white notes from D-D it is

• Major

• Dorian mode

• pentatonic

• scalic

If a piece sounds 'happy', it is

• Major

• Up beat

• Fast

• Diatonic

If the music sounds clashy, not major or minor it is

• Strong

• Legato

• Atonal

• Anacrusis

If you hear a finished cadence that sounds like a strong finish it is

• Plagal

• Interrupted

• Perfect

• Imperfect

What does it mean a piece 'modulates'?

• The music has moved to a different key

• The music has moved to a different tone

• The music has moved to a different metre

• The music has moved to a different instrument

A plagal cadence sounds like

• A musical question

• Unfinished

• A full stop

• Amen

If you change the pitch of the music, you

• Perform it

• Improvise it

• Transpose it

• Compose it

What harmonic device is a long sustained note?

• Chord

• Pedal

• Ostinato

• Suspension