Defying Gravity Key Words

True or False? Tremolo is an effect where an instrument plays a continuous rapid repetition of either a single pitch or to alternating pitches.

• True

• False

Stabbed chords are...

• Loud, detached chords

• A chord that just uses a single note

• A repeating chord that never changes

• A high pitched chord that could accompany a horror film

Staccato refers to notes that are played

• Smoothly

• Detached

Legato notes are played...

• Detached

• Smoothly

Overdrive is used in Defying Gravity. What does it do?

• It is a vocal effect that makes the voice sound deeper than it is

• It is a guitar effect that gives a clean sound

• It is a guitar effect that produces a deliberately distorted sound

• It is a melody that drives the piece forward

Sforzando is noted on the Defying Gravity score. What does it tell the player to do?

• To suddenly break in to improvisation

• To suddenly get quieter

• To play a note with sudden or strong emphasis

• The play a note a lot softer than previous notes

What does the texture 'melody-dominated homophony' mean?

• A drone

• One voice/ instrument plays a melody and the accompanying voices/instruments provide a harmony or accompaniment

• There is only a melody in the piece

• Lots of melodies interweaving with one another

What does the texture term 'unison' mean?

• Two or more people performing the same notes.

• A soloist

• A melody with accompaniment

• A single line melody

What does the texture term 'contrapuntal' mean?

• Music in which there is a single melodic line

• Music in which two or more melodic lines occur simultaneously

• Music in which there is a melody and accompaniment

True or False? Monophonic is a texture consisting of an unaccompanied melody, performed by a soloist or by many people in unison or in octaves

• True

• False