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Pitch
Stage 6 Vocabulary for HSC Music 1: Pitch
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Contrary Motion | when the two voices or instruments move in opposite direction to each other by step or leap |
| Melody | The main tune of the song |
| What does the MORPH mnemonic stand for? | Melody Ornamentation Range/Role/Register Phrasing Harmony |
| What is tonality? | Scales, modes or set of pitches selected by the composer |
| Diatonic | Major and minor scales used in Western Music |
| Which scale degrees are used in the pentatonic scale? | 1-2-3-5-6-8 |
| Which scale degrees are used in the Blues Scale | 1-b3-4-5b-5-b6-b7-8 |
| Microtone | Literally a 'small tone', smaller than a semitone |
| Atonal | Music with no centre of home key |
| Ornamentation | Ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes—typically, added notes—that are not essential to carry the overall line of the melody |
| Trill | a musical ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes, usually a semitone or tone apart |
| Grace notes | small, crushed notes which are not essential to the melody |
| Range | the distance from the lowest to the highest pitch |
| What are the 5 different pitch roles? | Counter melody, melody, harmony, bass line, rhythm |
| Register | The height of the sound. i.e. High register, mid register, low register |
| Which two ways can we describe phrasing? | balanced or unbalanced |
| What is a common bass line played in jazz? | Walking bass |
| What is the name given to a repeated bass note through a section of music where the harmonies change? | Pedal point |
| Which three ways can melodies move? | Step, skip leap |
| What are the names for 6 melodic contours? | Arch, angular, stagnant, wave, ascending, descending |
| Riff | A riff is a repeated chord or melodic progression or refrain in pop, rock and jazz |
| Simple chord | A diatonic chord with 3 tones |
| Complex chord | Chords with more than three different types of notes. E.g. 7ths, 9ths, 13ths, Sus4, Sus2 |
| The scale most commonly used in jazz and early rock songs | Blues scale |
| Sequence | a sequence is the restatement of a motif or longer melodic (or harmonic) passage at a higher or lower pitch in the same voice |
| Imitation | imitation is the repetition of a melody in a polyphonic texture shortly after its first appearance in a different voice |
| Motif | the smallest independent particle in a musical idea. These are repeated often |
| Melisma | the singing of a single syllable of text while moving between several different notes in succession |
| Ostinato | a repeated pattern |
| What term can we give to all of these scales: Phrygian dominant, Gypsy scale, Aeolian, Dorian | Non-Western tonality |
| An accompaniment pattern used commonly in the Classical period. 1-5-3-5... | Alberti Bass |
| Counter Melody | A secondary melody played at the same time as the principal melody |
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