GCSE/A level musical elements 2

Baroque composer

• Mozart

• Beethoven

• Purcell

• Debussy

homophonic means

• song

• melody

• melody and accompaniment

• interweaving parts

polyphonic means

• sound that uses pauses

• many melodies heard simultaneously

• chorus

• melody and chords

4/4 is also known as

• hammer time

• half time

• quarter time

• common time

crescendo means

• louder

• getting gradually louder

• moderately loud

• immediately loud

syncopation means

• beating regularly

• the beats of a bar

• off beat

• triplet

A fanfare is typically played by

• woodwind

• strings

• percussion

• brass

stepwise movement can also be called

• conjunct

• contrapuntal

• disjunct

• diatonic

in a key can also be called

• diatonic

• diad

• triad

• tonic

Perfect cadence

• II-I

• IV-I

• V-I

• I-I