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Year 8Music revisionYour music exam will be next lesson. It will be a listening exam, where you
are played music and asked questions about them. It will cover all the topics you have done this year, plus some general music questions.
There is a copy of this powerpoint on
misswerrysclasses.com. Use it to revise!
The Elements of MusicContrast Element
Pitch
Duration
Tempo
Dynamics
Timbre
Texture
Structure
SILENCE!
…all the way from the start of Year 7… you should know all of these!
The Elements of MusicContrast Element
High/low Pitch
Long/short Duration
Fast/slow Tempo
Loud/soft Dynamics
Tone colour Timbre
Thick/thin Texture
The overall plan Structure
SILENCE!
…all the way from the start of Year 7… you should know all of these!
What are the different families of instruments?
What are the different families of instruments?
Basic music theory: rhythm and time signatures
Basic music theory: rhythmName Symbol How many
beats?
2 quavers:
Basic music theory: rhythmName Symbol How many
beats?
Crotchet 1
Minim 2
Semibreve 4
Quaver ½ each
Rest 1
2 quavers:
There will be questions in the exam where you have to write down rhythms.
Basic music theory: pitch
Basic music theory: pitch
The notes in the spaces are easy to remember:
EveryGood Boy DeservesFood
EveryGreen BusDrivesFast
Basic music theory: pitch
There will be questions in the exam where you have to write down a simple melody that you hear.
Interval = the distance between two notes
• Count the note you are starting from as 1. Then just count up or down to the other note, i.e.
• We call this interval a sixth (not a 6!)
D = 1 so B = 6
Variations: definitions
• Sequence = repeating the motif higher or lower each time
• Interval = the distance between two notes
• Parallel motion = two parts moving together, always the same distance apart
Variations: more definitions
• Contrary motion = moving in opposite directions. The opposite of parallel motion.
• Inversion = playing it upside down• Retrograde = playing it backwards• Augmentation = make each note
twice as long
12 bar blues
C C C CF F C CG F C C (G)
turnaround
Two or more notes played together
Flip the notes of the chord
Four notes in the chord: the extra one is a seventh above the root, i.e. G7=GBDF
Making it up on the spot
Fitting in with the style: stylish
When you substitute a G(7) chord in bar 12, to take you back to the start
The lowest part
for blues