Concepts of music - HSC Music 1 - Aural Skills Essentials PDF

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This is all the concepts of music you can get HSC/ Trial questions about. Try and memories this as it helped me greatly! Hopefully you can get some sort of use out of this :)...

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Pitch Melody 1. Instrument(s)

Harmony 1. Instrument(s) - harmonic, instruments, role in harmony

2. Register and range - high or low, narrow or wide range

2. Register and range - high or low, narrow or wide range

3. Tonality - tonal or atonal, major, minor ,modal chromatic

3. Tonality - tonal or atonal, major, minor ,modal chromatic, consonant or dissonant, resolution

Phrasing - balanced, symmetrical phrases, call and response, repeated, varied or developed Shape - simple or complex, smooth or angular, ascending, descending, static, flowing, fragmented or rhythmic, plain or ornamented

4. Rate of change - harmonic rhythm: regular or irregular, fast or slow Texture - block, arpeggio, riff, countermelody, simple or complex - Is harmonic accompaniment continuous, simple or complex - Is harmonic accompaniment prominent/ in the foreground/ background

Duration 1. Beat and tempo - weak, consonant rubato or changing? 2. Metre - pulse grouped in 2 (i.e. duple) or 2 (i.e. triple), complex (o.e. 2+3), consonant or changing? 3. Subdivision - of the pulse into 2 (e.g. quavers or semiquavers) or 3. Is it constant or changing? 4. Layers - all the same, similar, in conflict (i.e. crossrhythm) 5. Rhythms - notate, long/ short, repetitive patterns (ostinati), changing, simple/complex, straight/swung, dotted, syncopated, syncopated, acceneted 6. Performed by - role of instruments Tone colour (Timbre, Performing Media, Sound Sources and others) 1. Standard instruments - included voice and register of instruments 2. Unusual instruments - context! (e.g. electric guitar with an orchestra, ethnic, if unknown how the sound is made (i.e. blown, struck, plucked etc) 3. Distorted - quality of tone, natural or electronic, synthesized i.e. are real instruments or electronic/ synthesized instruments being played? 4. Roles - melodic, harmonic, bass, percussive/ rhythmic. 5. Ensemble - choral, ochesteral, chamber, large/ small, style (e.g rock band, big bands etc.) 6. Descriptions - qualified by how that description of founds is created e.g. powerful lower brass playing loudly sustained chords - compare to other instruments Texture 1. Type - drone, monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic 2. Changes - how? Why?

3. Density - qualify subjective statements 4. Layers - number or layers, instruments/ groups 5. Use - structurally, effect, variation...