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WorksheetsGCSE OCR Melody knowledge organiser quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
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 . . .
(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
(a)
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
Movement between notes that are next to each other in the scale is called
(a)
Movement equal to two notes is known as
(a)
If you repeat a melodic idea in another instrument it is known as
(a)
If you turn the melodic idea upside down it is known as . . .
(a)
If you play a melody idea backwards it is known as
(a)
If you change a melodic idea slightly it is known as
(a)
Constant repetition of a melodic idea is known as a
(a)
Any movement between notes in a melody that is further than a 'skip' is known as a
(a)
If a melody uses notes that are not of the key, it is often described as
(a)
When the notes of a melody move along in scale order, it is known as
(a)
