CAD100 CADENCE PRELUDE
FUNDAMENTALS DESIGN ENTRY AND
ANALYSIS TOOLS ASSESSMENT TEST PAPER
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY RESOURCE
●● Alberti Bass
Answer: Accompaniment style popular in the classical period. Instead of
writing simple chords for the left hand, the composer arranges the same
notes in a pattern of broken chords.
●● Alto Clef
Answer: C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
●● Anacrusis
Answer: Pick up bar.
●● Antiphonal
Answer: Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
●● Arco
Answer: Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
,●● Arpeggio
Answer: Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it
is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
●● Articulation
Answer: Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato, legato,
accent.
●● Atonal
Answer: Without key center
●● Augmentation
Answer: Increasing the note values of a musical theme, usually to twice
their value.
●● Augmented
Answer: Made larger.
●● Bare chord
Answer: Chord without a third.
●● Binary form
,Answer: Two part form - A B. The first section modulates (usually to the
dominant). The second section is often longer than the first and uses
similar material.
●● Blues
Answer: Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
●● C Clefs
Answer: Alto and tenor clefs
●● Cadence
Answer: Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small
and large musical sections.
●● Perfect Cadence
Answer: Cadence: V - I
●● Plagal Cadence
Answer: Cadence: IV -I
●● Interrupted Cadence
Answer: Cadence: V - vi
, ●● Imperfect Cadence
Answer: Cadence:
I-V
ii - V
IV - V
●● Canon
Answer: Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices
imitate a leading voice.
●● Chromatic
Answer: Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic
period is known as the period of chromaticism.
●● Coda
Answer: Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
●● Consonance
Answer: Combination of aggreable tones.
●● Countermelody
Answer: Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a
type of countermelody.
FUNDAMENTALS DESIGN ENTRY AND
ANALYSIS TOOLS ASSESSMENT TEST PAPER
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY RESOURCE
●● Alberti Bass
Answer: Accompaniment style popular in the classical period. Instead of
writing simple chords for the left hand, the composer arranges the same
notes in a pattern of broken chords.
●● Alto Clef
Answer: C clef used by the viola. C is on the middle line.
●● Anacrusis
Answer: Pick up bar.
●● Antiphonal
Answer: Alternate singing or playing by different groups.
●● Arco
Answer: Instruction to use the bow after a plucked passage of music.
,●● Arpeggio
Answer: Chord whose notes are played one after another. Sometimes it
is written as a chord preceded by a wiggly line.
●● Articulation
Answer: Musical shaping and phrasing. Marks include staccato, legato,
accent.
●● Atonal
Answer: Without key center
●● Augmentation
Answer: Increasing the note values of a musical theme, usually to twice
their value.
●● Augmented
Answer: Made larger.
●● Bare chord
Answer: Chord without a third.
●● Binary form
,Answer: Two part form - A B. The first section modulates (usually to the
dominant). The second section is often longer than the first and uses
similar material.
●● Blues
Answer: Based on a chord pattern using primary chords (I IV V).
●● C Clefs
Answer: Alto and tenor clefs
●● Cadence
Answer: Gives stopping place to breathe. Signals the end of both small
and large musical sections.
●● Perfect Cadence
Answer: Cadence: V - I
●● Plagal Cadence
Answer: Cadence: IV -I
●● Interrupted Cadence
Answer: Cadence: V - vi
, ●● Imperfect Cadence
Answer: Cadence:
I-V
ii - V
IV - V
●● Canon
Answer: Type of counterpoint (polyphony) where one or more voices
imitate a leading voice.
●● Chromatic
Answer: Notes that are not in the key of the composition. Romatic
period is known as the period of chromaticism.
●● Coda
Answer: Ending section designed to round off a musical composition.
●● Consonance
Answer: Combination of aggreable tones.
●● Countermelody
Answer: Second melody above or below the main melody. Descant is a
type of countermelody.
