GCSE OCR Melody knowledge organiser quiz

What does pitch mean?

• The height of the note

• How high or low the note is

• The depth of the note

• The distance between the notes

What is an interval

• The distance between two notes

• How high a note is

• The difference between the two keys

• How low a note is

What is a motif?

• A small, loud chord

• A repeated pattern of notes

• A long sustained note

• A fragment of a melody

If you repeat a melodic idea, but start it on a different note it is a . . .

What does the 'range' of a melody mean?

• How high an instrument can play

• The distance between the highest note and the lowest note

• How low an instrument can play

• All of the above

What is a 'hook/riff'?

• Music to catch fish to

• A long, ornamented pattern

• A short, memorable melodic idea

• Music to accompany the melody

When you have a constant repetitive musical idea it is known as

Describe the melody of the lower stave . . .

• Scalic

• Complicated

• Canon

• Countermelody

Pick the best description of a 'phrase'.

• A longer musical idea, that is constructed into musical sentences

• A long a winding idea that seems to have no end

• A repeated pattern that moves in step

• Lots of short, fragmented, musical notes

What is a scale/mode?

• A short pattern of notes

• Something you play on the guitar to show how good you are

• When you press all the white notes on the piano

• A group of notes that a melody is based on