Yr 10 GCSE Music Mega Vocab Test

Where a note or beat is played louder, or emphasized

• Accent
• Accompaniment
• Broken Chords
• Chromatic

Anything that isn't the main melody

• Countermelody
• Call and Response
• Accompaniment
• Motif

Bowing a string instrument

• Pizzicato
• Arco
• Diatonic
• Melisma

Accompaniment based on skipping between notes of chord. Sounds like broken chords

• Broken Chords
• Arpeggios
• Cadence
• Harmony

How the music is played or how the notes are shaped

• Staccato
• Pizzicato
• Legato
• Articulation

Where the notes of a chord are all played at the same time

• Broken Chords
• Block chords
• Countermelody
• Strummed

Where the notes of a chord are played one after another rather than at the same time

• Broken Chords
• Imitation
• Homophonic
• Block chords

Two chord played at the end of a section or phrase of music

• Homophonic
• Ornamentation
• Cadence
• Major

Textures in which instruments or groups alternate (either repeating the same thing or question / answer)

• Structure
• Contrary Motion
• Imitation
• Call and Response

Notes that DON'T belong in a CHORD. Usually sounds DISONANT or CLASHING

• Consonant
• Harmony
• Chromatic
• Dissonant