Across
- 3. Several, often ornamented, notes sung to one syllable of text.
- 5. A horizontal succession of pitches.
- 7. An accompaniment style used in jazz.
- 9. A scale made up of five notes.
- 12. The change of key in a piece of music.
- 14. The pitch chosen by the composer, usually based on a scale or mode.
- 17. A sound that is pleasing to the ear.
- 18. A chord progression derived from early jazz music.
- 19. The notes of a chord played separately rather than together.
- 20. Performing music spontaneously, without planning.
- 22. The extent of the notes used in a melody.
- 25. Tuned sounds e.g. singing voice.
- 30. A melodic fragment that is heard throughout a piece of music that helps unify the work.
- 31. The immediate repetition of a melodic fragment at a different pitch.
- 32. A repeated harmonic pattern.
- 33. A sound that is unpleasing to the ear.
- 34. One or more notes held throughout a piece or section of music.
Down
- 1. ____________ music has no tonal centre or key.
- 2. A held or repeated note, usually (but not always!) in the bass.
- 4. The ending of a phrase that can be 'perfect', 'plagal', 'imperfect' or 'interrupted'.
- 5. The shape of the melody in a piece of music.
- 6. A note in one chord that is held into the next chord, creating dissonance and tension.
- 8. An interval smaller than a semitone.
- 10. A chord of three notes.
- 11. The highness and lowness of sound.
- 13. The scale often heard in the jazz genre.
- 15. The earliest documented scale system, dating back to ancient Greece.
- 16. Untuned sounds e.g. speaking voice.
- 19. An accompaniment style from the Classical period.
- 21. The 'colour' added by a composer to decorate a melody or harmony and make it more interesting.
- 23. The scale consisting of all twelve semitones.
- 24. A scale made up of equal intervals.
- 26. The tone or note around which a scale and/or piece are based.
- 27. Two or more pitches sounding together.
- 28. The 'height' of the sound, as in high, middle or low.
- 29. Another word for 'melodic ostinato'.