Y9 Music Revision

• What does Dim. mean: A gradual decrease in volume
• What does pp mean: very quiet
• What does Allegro mean: fast
• What does Andante mean: at a walking pace
• What does Presto mean: extremely fast
• What does Adagio mean: slow
• Retrograde is where a piece of music is reversed
• Dots above and below notes mean staccato
• The curved lines on bars mean legato
• Inversion is when a chord is flipped
• this is called a circle of fifths

  you remember it like this: Father Christmas Gave Dad An Electric Blanket, Blanket Explodes And Dad Gets Cold Feet

  
• The Roots of the primary triads are the:

  • 1st note: I, of the scale
  • 4th note: IV, of the scale
  • 5th note: V, of the scale