things u dont have a clue on

• features of electronic dance music texture?

  Gradually changes

  Layers

  increases in complexity
• accompaniment = instruments
• ahead of the beat = push rhythms!!!
• Subject and answer in concerto
• characteristics of baroque music?

  Perfect cadence

  sequences

  Pedal
• Star wars - battle feel?

  Dissonance

  Chromaticism
• Elements of jazz music ?

  Blues notes

  Primary chords

  Extended chords

  Altered chords
• If describing something as dis/conjunct - say STARTS OR ENDS
• Features of early Romantic music?

  virtuosic

  sudden change in dynamics

  Large tessitura/ range of notes used
• if in doubt rhythm say syncopation apart from baroque then say dotted
• structure of purcell = ground bass
• baroque harmony = tierce de picardie, ground bass, perfect cadence
• ostinato - fusions - repeating pattern
• african, ostinato and syncopations
• always say what type of guitar (acoustic/electric/flamenco/bass)

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• samba - guitar solo - semi-quavers
• harmony features of early romantic music -

  • dissonant
  • chromatic
  • diminished sevenths
• ostinato - samba, afro celt, defying gravity
• vocalisation - when you riff
• unlimited interval - octave
• exciting - chromatic harmony
• sonority - the quality of a sound, especially the quality of a vowel sound - voices
• BAROQUE = POLYPHONIC
• calm purcell - melody - word-painting, tonality - modulation
• killer queen - snare roll not drum roll
• guitar part does call and response with melody in killer queen
• rhythm = ostinato (repeating idea)
• beethoven - at the start = dotted rhythms (right hand), crotchets = start if exposition
• 4/4 at start and 2/4 exposition - beethoven
• star wars - melody starts with perfect 5th
• star wars - ff
• guitar bend - distorts/changes pitch
• guitar slide - slides between pitches
• baroque orchestral music texture - ripieno and concertino