GCSE Music key terms

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Across
  1. 4. A performing technique where the pitch of a note wavers rapidly.
  2. 6. A rhythm that contains pairs of notes in the pattern long-short.
  3. 9. A melody which moves by leaps and would be hard to sing.
  4. 10. A "comma" cadence - normally I-V
  5. 14. A type of melodic ornamentation often referred to as a "crushed note".
  6. 16. A melodic ornament consisting of the original note, the one above, the note again, the one below, and then the note again.
  7. 19. A high male voice.
  8. 20. A chord in which the notes are played one after the other rather than at the same time.
  9. 22. A "full stop" cadence - chords V-I
  10. 23. A melodic ornament consisting of a rapid alternation of two adjacent pitches.
  11. 24. The lowest type of female voice.
  12. 25. How loudly or softly the music is played.
  13. 28. Simultaneous performance of the same pitch or pitches by more than one person.
  14. 30. A group of three equal notes in the space of two.
Down
  1. 1. A hymn-like cadence, IV-I.
  2. 2. A musical texture in which two or more melodic lines are played together.
  3. 3. A musical texture in which one part has the melody and the other parts accompany.
  4. 5. The lowest type of male voice.
  5. 7. The fourth degree of a scale.
  6. 8. The process of changing key in a passage of music,
  7. 11. Notes that don't belong to the scale of the key the music is currently in.
  8. 12. The most common keyboard instrument of the Baroque period - the giveaway if you hear it.
  9. 13. When a male singer uses his 'head voice'.
  10. 15. Sounds like it should be a perfect cadence but then doesn't land on the tonic - V-? (usually vi)
  11. 17. A repeating melodic, harmonic or rhythmic motif, heard continuously throughout part or the whole of a piece.
  12. 18. The tonic, subdominant and dominant chords in a given key.
  13. 21. The highest female voice.
  14. 26. A melody which moves by steps or small leaps and would be easy to sing.
  15. 27. A section of music that ends a piece.
  16. 29. A short, catchy melodic or rhythmic idea that is repeated throughout a jazz or pop song.
  17. 30. An interval of two semitones.