Year 7 Music Baseline assessment (UK)

What is RHYTHM?

• Taps on a drum

• A pattern of short and long sounds and silences

• A sound an instrument makes

• A piano term

What is PULSE?

• A steady regular beat

• A sort of sound

• A type of song

• A pattern of short and long sounds and silences

What is the repeated part of a song called (the bit that everyone sings along to)?

• Verse

• Introduction

• Chorus

• Outro

What are Dynamics?

• How loudly or softly a piece should be playe

• How fast the piece goes

• How you are supposed to move to the music

• How much time you have left on the music

What is an OSTINATO?

• A steady regular beat

• A special type of music

• A type of tomato

• A repeated pattern

What do you think CALL AND RESPONSE might mean?

• A caller sings something and everyone ignores them and does their own thing

• A caller sings or plays a short phrase and the rest answer

• A caller plays something and the audience listens

• The group plays something and the caller answers

What music do you listen to? No wrong answers here!

How many instruments can you list?

What is TEMPO?

• How strong or weak to play or sing

• How loud and soft to play or sing

• How high or low to play or sing

• How fast or slow the music goes

What is PITCH?

• How high or low to play or sing

• How fast or slow to play or sing

• How loud and soft to play and sing

• How to throw a ball