CIE MUSIC

• Anacrusis

  up-beat

  
• counterpoint/contrapuntal


  when two or more melodies are heard in combination

  
• Conjunct (stepwise)


  Small steps

  
• Disjunct (angular)


  Leaps

  
• Arpeggio/broken chord


  breaking a chord into each of its notes played in succession

  
• Scalic (ascending/descending)


  using a scale

  
• Range


  Distance between highest and lowest note

  
• Sequence


  A short phrase repeated higher or lower

  
• Imitation


  where a melody in one part is repeated a few notes later in a different part, overlapping the melody in the first part which continues.

  
• Contrast


  different opposing ideas

  
• Leitmotif


  a motif assigned to a character

  
• Motif


  a repeated idea

  
• Semitone


  half a tone

  
• Microtone

  an interval of less than a semitone

  
• Chromatic movement


  adjacent semitones

  
• Pentatonic


  Five note scale

  
• Blue notes


  III♭/IV♯/V♭/VII♭;a note sung at a different pitch than standard for expression

  
• Trill


  ORNAMENT: Rapid alteration between two adjacent notes

  
• Countermelody


  accompanying melody sounded against the principal melody.

  
• Answering phrase


  a short phrase in response to an original phrase

  
• Thematic


  relating to a unifying motif or idea

  
• Major


  TONALITY: Sounds happy

  
• Minor


  TONALITY: Sounds sad

  
• Dominant


  fifth degree of the scale

  
• Relative major/minor


  keys with the same key signature

  
• diatonic


  notes within the key

  
• tonic


  first degree of the scale

  
• subdominant


  fourth degree of the scale

  
• dissonance

  unharmonious sound, clashing notes

  
• repetition


  repeating a motif/theme

  
• theme and variations


  Repeating a motif with changes in a set order

  
• ostinato

  Repeated pattern

  
• improvisation


  Creating music in the moment

  
• regular phrasing


  Melodies written in 2/4 bar equal groups

  
• descant

  an additional melody sung above the principal melody

  
• canon


  a musical form where parts enter at different times but have the same melody throughout
• Syllabic


  Lyrics set with one pitch per syllable

  
• vibrato


  Fluctuation/wobble in pitch (to vibrate)

  
• falsetto


  Above head voice

  
• belt


  Controlled yelling