AQA GCSE music
A cappella - ANS -Unaccompanied singing
Agogo bells - ANS -Struck clapperless bells found in African and Latin-American music
Alto - ANS -A high male or low female voice
Antiphony - ANS -Music in which two or more groups of performers alternate each other
Arpeggio - ANS -A chord played as successful rather than simultaneous notes
Atonal music - ANS -Music that is unrelated to a tonic note and so has mo sense of key
Bar - ANS -A metric unit represented in print by all of the notes and rests between vertical lines
called barlines
Baroque - ANS -The period C 1600-1700 and it's music
Bass - ANS -A low male voice.
The lowest sounding part of a composition whether for voices or instruments.
Beat - ANS -The underlying pulse of metrical music
Bhangra - ANS -An amalgamation of western pop styles and traditional Punjabi styles of music
Binary form - ANS -A musical structure in two sections
Blues scale - ANS -A scale in which some pitches (blue notes) are performed slightly flatter
than their counterparts in a major scale. The most commonly altered pitches are the third and
seventh degrees.
Bpm - ANS -Abbreviation of beats per minute
Cadence - ANS -A point of repose at the end of a phrase, sometimes harmonised with two
cadence chords
Call and response - ANS -A technique whereby a soloist sings or plays a phrase to which a
larger group responds with an answering phrase
, Canon - ANS -A compositional device in which a melody in one part is later repeated note for
note in another part while the melody in the first part continues to unfold
Chamber music - ANS -Music intended for domestic performance with one instrument per part
Choir - ANS -A group of singers performing together, whether in unison or parts
Chorus - ANS -In popular music, a strong of the refrain of the lyrics.
A large group of singers usually performing compositions in several parts.
The electronic multiplication of an individual part to give it greater body.
Clave rhythm - ANS -In salsa, the central rhythmic pattern underlying the entire structure of the
music, around which the other parts must fit. The rhythm is usually played on a pair of wooden
sticks called claves.
Clef - ANS -A symbol defining the pitches of the notes on a stave.
Consonance and dissonance - ANS -The relative stability (consonance) or instability
(dissonance) of two or more notes sounded simultaneously. Consonant intervals and chords are
called concords. Dissonant intervals are called discords.
Counter melody - ANS -A new melody that occurs simultaneously with a melody that has been
heard before.
Cross rhythm - ANS -A rhythm that conflicts with the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed
beats of a composition of two conflicting rhythms within a single beat.
Diatonic and chromatic notes - ANS -Diatonic notes are those belonging to the scale of the
prevailing key wile chromatic notes are foreign to it.
Djembe - ANS -Goblet-shaped west-african drum
Dominant - ANS -The fifth degree of a major or minor scale
Dominant pedal - ANS -The fifth degree of a scale held or repeated against changing harmony
Double stopping - ANS -The performance of a two-noye chord on a bowed string instrument
Drone - ANS -The same as pedal, but the term is usually associated with folk music. A two-note
often consists of the tonic and dominant.
Drum and bass - ANS -Very fast popular dance style - drum and bass indicates the underlying
structure
A cappella - ANS -Unaccompanied singing
Agogo bells - ANS -Struck clapperless bells found in African and Latin-American music
Alto - ANS -A high male or low female voice
Antiphony - ANS -Music in which two or more groups of performers alternate each other
Arpeggio - ANS -A chord played as successful rather than simultaneous notes
Atonal music - ANS -Music that is unrelated to a tonic note and so has mo sense of key
Bar - ANS -A metric unit represented in print by all of the notes and rests between vertical lines
called barlines
Baroque - ANS -The period C 1600-1700 and it's music
Bass - ANS -A low male voice.
The lowest sounding part of a composition whether for voices or instruments.
Beat - ANS -The underlying pulse of metrical music
Bhangra - ANS -An amalgamation of western pop styles and traditional Punjabi styles of music
Binary form - ANS -A musical structure in two sections
Blues scale - ANS -A scale in which some pitches (blue notes) are performed slightly flatter
than their counterparts in a major scale. The most commonly altered pitches are the third and
seventh degrees.
Bpm - ANS -Abbreviation of beats per minute
Cadence - ANS -A point of repose at the end of a phrase, sometimes harmonised with two
cadence chords
Call and response - ANS -A technique whereby a soloist sings or plays a phrase to which a
larger group responds with an answering phrase
, Canon - ANS -A compositional device in which a melody in one part is later repeated note for
note in another part while the melody in the first part continues to unfold
Chamber music - ANS -Music intended for domestic performance with one instrument per part
Choir - ANS -A group of singers performing together, whether in unison or parts
Chorus - ANS -In popular music, a strong of the refrain of the lyrics.
A large group of singers usually performing compositions in several parts.
The electronic multiplication of an individual part to give it greater body.
Clave rhythm - ANS -In salsa, the central rhythmic pattern underlying the entire structure of the
music, around which the other parts must fit. The rhythm is usually played on a pair of wooden
sticks called claves.
Clef - ANS -A symbol defining the pitches of the notes on a stave.
Consonance and dissonance - ANS -The relative stability (consonance) or instability
(dissonance) of two or more notes sounded simultaneously. Consonant intervals and chords are
called concords. Dissonant intervals are called discords.
Counter melody - ANS -A new melody that occurs simultaneously with a melody that has been
heard before.
Cross rhythm - ANS -A rhythm that conflicts with the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed
beats of a composition of two conflicting rhythms within a single beat.
Diatonic and chromatic notes - ANS -Diatonic notes are those belonging to the scale of the
prevailing key wile chromatic notes are foreign to it.
Djembe - ANS -Goblet-shaped west-african drum
Dominant - ANS -The fifth degree of a major or minor scale
Dominant pedal - ANS -The fifth degree of a scale held or repeated against changing harmony
Double stopping - ANS -The performance of a two-noye chord on a bowed string instrument
Drone - ANS -The same as pedal, but the term is usually associated with folk music. A two-note
often consists of the tonic and dominant.
Drum and bass - ANS -Very fast popular dance style - drum and bass indicates the underlying
structure
