AQA GCSE Music 2025/2026 Exam
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A cappella - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Unaccompanied singing
Agogo bells - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Struck clapperless bells found in African and
Latin-American music
Alto - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A high male or low female voice
Antiphony - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Music in which two or more groups of
performers alternate each other
Arpeggio - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A chord played as successful rather than
simultaneous notes
Atonal music - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Music that is unrelated to a tonic note and
so has mo sense of key
Bar - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A metric unit represented in print by all of the notes
and rests between vertical lines called barlines
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,Baroque - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The period C1600-1700 and it's music
Bass - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A low male voice.
The lowest sounding part of a composition whether for voices or
instruments.
Beat - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The underlying pulse of metrical music
Bhangra - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An amalgamation of western pop styles and
traditional Punjabi styles of music
Binary form - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A musical structure in two sections
Blues scale - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Abbreviation of beats per minute
Cadence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A point of repose at the end of a phrase,
sometimes harmonised with two cadence chords
Call and response - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A technique whereby a soloist sings or
plays a phrase to which a larger group responds with an answering phrase
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, Canon - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Music intended for domestic performance
with one instrument per part
Choir - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A group of singers performing together, whether in
unison or parts
Chorus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A symbol defining the pitches of the notes on a stave.
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A cappella - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Unaccompanied singing
Agogo bells - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Struck clapperless bells found in African and
Latin-American music
Alto - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A high male or low female voice
Antiphony - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Music in which two or more groups of
performers alternate each other
Arpeggio - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A chord played as successful rather than
simultaneous notes
Atonal music - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Music that is unrelated to a tonic note and
so has mo sense of key
Bar - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A metric unit represented in print by all of the notes
and rests between vertical lines called barlines
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,Baroque - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The period C1600-1700 and it's music
Bass - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A low male voice.
The lowest sounding part of a composition whether for voices or
instruments.
Beat - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The underlying pulse of metrical music
Bhangra - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An amalgamation of western pop styles and
traditional Punjabi styles of music
Binary form - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A musical structure in two sections
Blues scale - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Abbreviation of beats per minute
Cadence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A point of repose at the end of a phrase,
sometimes harmonised with two cadence chords
Call and response - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A technique whereby a soloist sings or
plays a phrase to which a larger group responds with an answering phrase
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, Canon - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Music intended for domestic performance
with one instrument per part
Choir - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A group of singers performing together, whether in
unison or parts
Chorus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A symbol defining the pitches of the notes on a stave.
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