Swan Lake - Ostinato

Who wrote the music to Swan Lake?

• Bach

• Tchaikovsky

• Mozart

• Beethoven

Dance music often contains an ostinato - why?

(2 reasons!)

• To make it interesting

• To make it loud

• To give a clear pulse

• To make it easy for the dancers to follow in time

What do we call repeating pattern like this?

• tomato

• ostinato

• motif

• chord

The clef is TREBLE - will the notes be high or low?

• high

• low

Which best describes the movement?

(2 answers)

• The note repeats twice, then again but lower.

• The note repeats twice, then again but higher

• The notes are all quavers

• The notes are all crotchets

The lowest note is A and the highest is C - what interval is between the notes?

• 5th

• Semi-Tone

• 3rd

• Octave