Melody/harmony

Question 1

Notes which rise in pitch

Answer 1

Ascending

Question 2

Two or more notes played together

Answer 2

Chord

Question 3

Changing of chords

Answer 3

Chord change

Question 4

Notes going down a pitch

Answer 4

Descending

Question 5

A chord in which certain notes clash

Answer 5

Discord

Question 6

Making it up during performance

Answer 6

Improvisation

Question 7

Melodic phrase which is repeated at a higher or lower pitch

Answer 7

Sequence

Question 8

Difference between a leap and a step

Answer 8

A leap is a few notes apart a step are notes together

Question 9

Rhythmic accompaniment with a bass note on the beat and a chord off the beat usually played on piano or guitar

Answer 9

Vamp

Question 10

Nonsense jazz words

Answer 10

Scat singing

Question 11

Five note scale eg black notes on a keyboard like auld Lang syne or the Skye boat song

Answer 11

Pentatonic

Question 12

A held note or repeated notes in the bass beneath changing upper parts

Answer 12

Pedal

Question 13

Decorating melody by adding short notes

Answer 13

Ornament

Question 14

Distance between 8 notes e.g. from D up to D

Answer 14

Octave

Question 15

Music sounds in a minor key sadder feel

Answer 15

Minor tonality

Question 16

Music sounds in major key happy

Answer 16

Major key

Question 17

Notes of chords are played separately

Answer 17

Arpeggio

Question 18

No feeling of key

Answer 18

Atonal

Question 19

Notes that move by the interval of a semitone

Answer 19

Chromatic

Question 20

A clash of notes to make a chord

Answer 20

Cluster

Question 21

Two parts that move in the opposite direction

Answer 21

Contrary motion

Question 22

Melody played against main melody

Answer 22

Countermelody

Question 23

Sliding from one note to another

Answer 23

Glissando

Question 24

Type of ornament played as a quick crushed note before main note of melody

Answer 24

Grace note

Question 25

The end of a song sounding like it is not finished

Answer 25

Imperfect cadence

Question 26

Note held high or repeated in an upper part

Answer 26

Inverted pedal

Question 27

Vocal music where several notes are sung to each syllable (hallelujah)

Answer 27

Melismatic

Question 28

A change of key

Answer 28

Modulation

Question 29

Song ends and sounds like it should end

Answer 29

Perfect cadence

Question 30

Smallest distance between notes

Answer 30

Semitone

Question 31

Each note is given one syllable

Answer 31

Syllabic

Question 32

Two semitones

Answer 32

Tone

Question 33

Scale where every interval is a tone it sounds vague

Answer 33

Whole tone scale

Question 34

An ornament which sounds like a crushed note played very quickly on the beat or just before

Answer 34

Acciaccatura

Question 35

Sounds middle eastern Aladdin

Answer 35

Harmonic minor scale

Question 36

Distance between 2 notes

Answer 36

Interval

Question 37

Any early scales Dorian mode eg white notes from d to d on keyboard

Answer 37

Mode/modal

Question 38

Prominent solo instrument part in a piece of vocal music

Answer 38

Obbligato

Question 39

Major key with same key signature as one minor key

Answer 39

Relative major

Question 40

Minor key with same key signature as one in major key

Answer 40

Relative minor

Question 41

Final chord of a piece in a minor key is changed to major

Answer 41

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