GCSE Music Terminology 3/12

How the notes in a chord have been spaced out and the order in which they occur

1. 1. Harmony: from the greek word for 'colour'. The term is used to describe notes that are not diatonic (part of the key of the music)
   
   2. Melody: ascending or descending in semitones

1. A series of chords in which the root note of each chord is a fifth lower or a fourth higher than that of the previous one.

1. The musical period extending from c. 1750 to c. 1820

1. The rhythm closely associated with the Latin percussion instrument known as 'claves' (short squat sticks that are struck together)

1. A section sometimes added to the end of a piece or movement

A short coda concluding a single section within a movement

Literally means 'with the voice': This is an instruction to the band and the musical director to follow the vocalist's tempo.

An interval that extends over more than one octave. For example: a compound third is equal to a tenth.

A metre in which the beat is dotted and subdivides into groups of three