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1 Coonabarabran High School ASSESSMENT NOTIFICATION Subject: Year 9/10 Music Teacher: Mrs Rossler Task: Yearly Aural Examination Weighting: 15% Due Date: Tuesday 12 November 2019, Lesson 5 (Term 4 Week 5) Through activities in performance, composition, musicology and aural, a student: 5.8 demonstrates an understanding of musical concepts through aural identification, discrimination, memorisation and notation in the music selected for study. Length of exam: One hour Exam Structure: This is an aural exam. You will be required to listen to musical excerpts and answer questions about the elements of Music and the way in which they are used/represented in the musical excerpt. Content to study: The elements of Music: (See attached pages) Tone Colour Texture Pitch Duration Structure Dynamics and Expressive Techniques You also need to know the following: The basic note values

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Coonabarabran High School ASSESSMENT NOTIFICATION

Subject: Year 9/10 Music

Teacher: Mrs Rossler

Task: Yearly Aural Examination

Weighting: 15%

Due Date: Tuesday 12 November 2019, Lesson 5 (Term 4 Week 5)

Through activities in performance, composition, musicology and aural, a student: 5.8 demonstrates an understanding of musical concepts through aural identification, discrimination,

memorisation and notation in the music selected for study.

Length of exam: One hour

Exam Structure: This is an aural exam. You will be required to listen to musical excerpts

and answer questions about the elements of Music and the way in which

they are used/represented in the musical excerpt.

Content to study: The elements of Music: (See attached pages)

Tone Colour

Texture

Pitch

Duration

Structure

Dynamics and Expressive Techniques

You also need to know the following:

The basic note values

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Time signature, bar, bar line, double bar line.

Bar

Time

Bar-line Double bar-line Signature

Note names:

Lines = Every Good Bird Does Fly

Spaces = F A C E

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TONE COLOUR (Performing Media/Sound sources): Instruments and their classification

Extra Class: Electronic Instruments

Voice Types:

Male Female

Tenor Soprano

Baritone Mezzo-Soprano

Bass Alto

Falsetto: singing in a higher pitch area

than normal

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HORNBOSTEL-SACHS

CLASSIFICATION OF INSTRUMENTS

Aerophones

Produces sound by vibration of air

Woodwinds

Brass

Didgeridoo

Panflute

Bagpipe

Shakuhachi

Chordophones

Produce sound by vibrating strings

Strings can be struck, bowed or struck

String instruments

Harp

Celtic harp

Harpsichord

Piano

Guitar

Membranophones

Produce sound when a stretched skin (membrane)

vibrates

All kinds of drums

Idiophones

Produce sound by the vibration of the instrument itself; can be

struck, rubbed, shaken or plucked

Percussion instruments other than drums

Electrophone Instruments

Produce an electric sound

Electric instruments

Electronic instruments

Amplified acoustic instruments

Synthesizers, drum machines, electric guitars, keyboards

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Texture How are instruments layered together?

Do they all play at the same time and all

the time?

Is there any call and response?

How are the instruments played?

The concept of texture relates to the layers of sound in a piece of

music. If there are many layers we describe the texture as thick. If

there are fewer sounds we describe the texture as thin.

Monophonic: one melody played on a solo instrument or sung by

a solo voice

Homophonic: a melody with accompaniment.

IMPORTANT: Which instrument/voice has the melody? Which instrument is accompanying?

Polyphonic: many melodies at the same time

String instruments:

bowed or plucked

(pizzicato)?

Brass instruments:

muted?

Call and response: a

short melodic idea sung

or played by a soloist and

answered by another

soloist or group

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Structure The concept of structure relates to how a piece of music is put together. We can also describe

structure as the different sections that make a piece of music. The most common type of

structure in music is used in popular music. Most pop songs have an introduction, verses and a

chorus that is repeated. Pop songs also have bridges and instrumentals to make the song

interesting.

Ternary: Music has three sections (ABA) Binary: Music has two sections

(AB)

Popular Music: Intro – verse – pre-chorus – chorus – bridge – instrumental – middle 8 –

outro

Ostinato: small repeated melody or rhythmic pattern

Repetition

Call and response

Riff

Hook

Strophic: the same

melody (verse) is

repeated with no other

sections in- between.

Call and response: a

short melodic idea sung

or played by a soloist and

answered by another

soloist or group

Riff: A repeated melodic

or chordal phrase in jazz

and rock

Hook: Key phrase of a

rock song, usually the

title. Often found in the

chorus. E.g. Hey Ya by

Outkast

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Duration

Allegro = quick

Moderato = moderate

speed

Lento = slow

Ritardando = going slower

Accelerando = going faster

Time signature

Tempo: how

fast/slow is the music?

DurationAccented

notes

Length of notes

Ostinato

repeated rhythmic pattern

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Pitch

Dynamics and Expressive Techniques pp p mp mf f ff pianissimo piano mezzo piano mezzo forte forte fortissimo

very quiet quiet moderately quiet moderately loud loud very loud

Crescendo = gradually getting louder

Decrescendo = gradually getting quieter

Allegro = lively and quick

Lento = slowly

Moderato = at a moderate speed

Ritardando

Ritenuto Gradually getting slower

Rallentando

Accelerando = gradually getting faster

NB: How are instruments and what effects are achieved

Arco = string instruments played with a bow

Pizzicato = strings are plucked

Melody

• Which instruments have the melody

• Ornamented?

• Repetition?

• Call and response

• Range (narrow, wide, medium)

• Register (high or low)

Accompaniment

• Rhythmic?

• Harmonic?

• Block chords or arpeggios

• Melodic?

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