Year 9/10 Music Revision

A sequence is:

• Stretching the melody by doubling the duration of each note

• The same as repetition

• A more or less exact repetition of a passage at a higher or lower level of pitch.

• A type of texture.

What effect does repetition have on the music?

• Makes the music stick in people's heads easier

• Changes the pitch frequently

• Allows the performer to play with more freedom

True or false - augmentation is a stretching of a melody by doubling the duration of each note.

• True

• False

True or false - diminution means to play the melody upside down (flip all the intervals)

• True

• False

Inversion is:

• Flipping the intervals of a melody, essentially playing it upside down

• Squashing a melody by halving the note durations

• Repeating a passage of music, starting at a different pitch

• I'm not sure

An auxiliary note...

• Can be added in the gap between 2 different pitches

• Can be added in the middle, either above or below, 2 pitches that are the same

• Is basically just repetition

• Is a note that is repeated throughout a piece of music

• I'm not sure...

Are you planning on writing this assignment on SongMaker or your own instrument?

• SongMaker

• My own instrument

• I haven't decided yet...

What effect does adding passing and auxiliary notes have on the music?

What is a counter melody?

Which compositional device is essentially like a 'musical conversation?'

• Inversion

• Call and Response

• Sequence

• Passing Note