A Level Music Terminology Latest 2024 Exam With Complete Solution

A Level Music Terminology Latest 2024 Exam With Complete Solution A cappella - CORRECT ANSWER-Italian for 'in church style'. A term that refers to unaccompanied singing (as in NAM 26). Accented passing note - CORRECT ANSWER-A dissonant note sounded on the beat and filling the gap between two harmony notes. In NAM 22 the notes F and A in the right hand of bar 53 beat 4 are accented passing notes, clashing with the underlying C7 chord. See also Appoggiatura and Passing note. Acciaccatura - CORRECT ANSWER-An ornament printed as a small note with a slash through its stem and flag (l» that is either played as short as possible, or is played with the main melodic note and immediately released. It often forms a discord with a harmony note, as is the case with the acciaccaturas in the second half of bar 15 in NAM 37. Alberti bass - CORRECT ANSWER-An accompaniment pattern in which the notes of a chord are repeatedly sounded in the order low, high, middle and high again. It is named after an obscure Italian composer who was to the device. See NAM 22, bars 71-80 (left hand). Anacrusis - CORRECT ANSWER-One or more weak-beat notes before the first strong beat of a phrase, as in bar 5 of NAM 52 and bar 8 of NAM 53. Often called a 'pick-up' in jazz and pop musi