Music - MYP 4 and 5 - Samuel Wright - Hodder 2020

Glossary
row A series of musical notes
12-tone
contains all twelve pitch classes in a
that
order
particular
When a stress, or stronger attack, is
accent
on a particular note or set of
emphasised
notes
A form of ornamentation often
acciaccatura
to as a crushed note because the
referred
is condensed to perform it, followed
beat
by the note it is attached to
quickly
mode A series of notes that predates
Aeolian
the Western major / minor system;
the white keys of the piano, it is found
using
playing A–A
by
A flute-like instrument that
aerophone
sound by air; this is a tone-colour
produces
classification
A form of ornamentation
appoggiatura
adds a non-chord note to a melody,
that
this note before the downbeat of
stressing
note it is attached to; it is often called a
the
note grace
Playing the notes of a chord in
arpeggio
broken style, one after the other, rather
a
simultaneously
than
Someone who takes an existing
arranger
of music and alters it to fit within a
piece
style or genre
new
To lengthen (a rhythm, melody or
augment
part of the process called motivic
phrase);
development
nova A Brazilian style of music with
bossa
distinct beat that evolved from samba
a
canção
A musical full stop often heard as a
cadence
of chords, one after the other
series
The compositional technique where
canon
or melodies enter one at a time,
voices
over each other
often
A musical line, often monophonic
chant
part) that was designed to emphasise
(one
text being sung
the
Three or more notes, stacked on top
chord
each other to form what is called a triad
of
progression String of chords
(chord)
triads, played one after the other in
or
patterns called progressions
different
tones Notes belonging to the chords,
chord
in a way that allows the audience to
played
the changes in harmony
perceive
Bowed instrument that is
chordophone
bowed or strummed
plucked,
Using notes that are not part of
chromatic
scale or key, often including sharps, flats
a
naturals, e.g. not diatonic
and
pattern A specific percussion
clave
and a pattern of 2 against 3 or
instrument,
against 2 common to different genres of
3
music from Brazil to Cuba
Latin-American
range Notes that do not travel further
close
a few steps away from the tonic (home
than
pitch)
improvisation Many
collective
improvising at the same time,
artists
completing each other’s
simultaneously
sentences
musical
A simple order or instruction to
command
a task used in coding language
complete
A pattern, often a rhythmic
complimentary
in different layers that when
grouping
fill out each possible note
combined
like a puzzle, but separately
combination
different combinations and patterns
show
rests
including
Large-scale work that has evolved
concerto
time; can include one large group
over
motion Two melodic lines moving
contrary
the opposite direction
in
An essential device in Western
counterpoint
music that uses different techniques to
art
voices or melodies over each other;
layer
‘note against note’
literally
Quarter-note, worth 1 beat
crotchet
See motivic development
development
Shorten (a rhythm, melody or
diminution
part of the process called motivic
phrase;
development
mode A series of notes that pre-
Dorian
the Western major / minor system;
dates
the white keys of the piano, it is found
using
playing D–D
by
Synonymous with the concept of
duration
rhythm
An instrument whose sound
electrophone
electronically produced
is
The opening section of a musical
exposition
called sonata form
structure
A chord or triad with extra notes
extension
on top, e.g. Gadd9
added
A defining feature or
fingerprint
from other musical patterns and
identified
devices
To break apart / chop up sections
fragment
melodies, rhythms and phrases (verb),
of
the smaller parts of these (noun); this
or
a part of the process called motivic
is
development
The grouping of commands into
function
string of instructions used in coding
a
languages
A slide in pitch that moves up and
glissando
e.g. the strings, voice or trombone,
down
by a line connecting the notes that
marked
and end the glissando
start
An instrument that produces its
idiophone
when hit, shaken or scraped
sound
imitation A device under the umbrella
voices or parts copy the
instruments,
/ rhythmic material of each other
melodic
A piece of popular music that
instrumental
no vocal accompaniment
has
The distance between two notes
interval
When a melodic phrase is turned
inversion
down; part of the process called
upside
development
motivic
A rhythmic composition that
korvai
different sections of Carnatic
connects
music; often refers to different
Indian
varieties that can be performed
rhythmic
A complete musical idea that can
leitmotif
23 bars long or 8
be
loop A loop in a game score such as
level
would find on the water world of Super
one
Mario
A German song for piano and voice
lieder
uses rhythm, melody and harmony to
that
the beauty of nature, sometimes the
express
and emotion
supernatural,
in A musician’s term that describes the
lock
of when the bass and drums lock in
feeling
each other rhythmically
to
Repetition of commands and functions
loop
a set time period
for
mode A series of notes that predates
Lydian
the Western major / minor system;
the white keys of the piano, it is found
using
playing F–F
by
Singing more than one note to one
melisma
syllable
Instrument with a
membranophone
skin or membrane
vibrating
Music for the IB MYP 4&5: by Concept
where different
counterpoint ,
term of
with a soloist (
or a group of
solo concerto )
with backing ( )
concerto grosso
soloists
characteristics that can be recognised and
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