Yr 11 Vocab Test

You are about to answer 30 questions about the vocabulary you need to know for the GCSE listening exam. You will see a key word or a definition and you will have to write your answer in 10 seconds. Then you will get the answer and the next slide will appear. Good luck!

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Unaccompanied choir

A Capella

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Music written with several different parts for different instruments.

Polyphonic

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A group of singers usually comprising sopranos, altos, tenors and basses

Choir

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Extra force given to a marked note. Indicated with a > above the note

Accent

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An increase, or accelleration of the tempo, or pace of a piece

Accelerando

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Briefly define Opera

Musical Drama with singers on stage and instrumental accompaniment

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Name 4 percussion instruments

Side drum, Bass drum, xylophone, glockenspiel, wood block etc

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When a stringed instrument is played not with a bow, but plucked with the fingers

Pizzicato

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To play with a flexible tempo

Rubato

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A group of three instruments including: A piano, a violin and a cello

Trio

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Very fast, faster than Allegro

Presto

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The highest female voice

Soprano

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Music written in only one voice, or with only one melody line throughout the range of instruments

Monophonic

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When a note is played a semitone down from its natural state

Flat

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Name 3 brass instruments

Trumpet, trombone, tuba, cornet, horn, etc

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A group of four string instruments including: two violins, one viola and a cello

String Quartet

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Sharp

When a note is played a semitone up from its natural note

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A combination of notes including one or more dissonant intervals". This means a combination of notes that don't sound 'right' together

Dischord/Atonal/Dissonant

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Symbols at the beginning of a stave showing which notes are to be played flat or sharp throughout a piece of music

Key Signature

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The lines upon which music notation is written

Stave

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Music without a sense of key

Atonal

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Texture. Melody + Chordal accompaniment

Homophonic

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Where the opening pattern of a musical phrase played by one voice or instrument is copied in another, not necessarily at the same pitch

Imitation