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Answering Aural Questions

Answering Aural Questions. A framework for answering aural questions using the 6 concepts of music. Answer the question. Read the question carefully and take careful note of key words. Which of the concepts are involved? Words like unity, contrast and interest!. Pitch, Pitch, Pitch.

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Answering Aural Questions

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  1. Answering Aural Questions A framework for answering aural questions using the 6 concepts of music.

  2. Answer the question • Read the question carefully and take careful note of key words. • Which of the concepts are involved? • Words like unity, contrast and interest!

  3. Pitch, Pitch, Pitch • On first listen work out the structure of the excerpt. • This gives you the opportunity to answer with reference to a number of sections and fills out your answer. • Use dot points or short sentences with one idea per point or sentence.

  4. Practice, Practice, Practice • Listen to an excerpt and write down the structure. Harmony • Describe the overall harmony/chords used (major/minor, atonal, modal, dissonant) • Does the piece modulate (change tonal centre or key and where?).

  5. Harmony • Intro/Section 1 • Are there any repeated chord patterns? • What is the rate of harmonic change (fast or slow chord changes). • What types of chords are used? (triads, arpeggios or broken chords). • Are there any cadences? (a harmonic motion associated with the ending of a phrase). • Where do cadences occur?

  6. For each section!! • Repeat the questions for each section.

  7. Melody • What instrument plays the main melody? • Is the pitch range wide or narrow? • Describe the contour of the melody (smooth, jagged, steps, leaps, ascending, descending, sequence?) Draw the melody graphically and identify any intervals you can. • Are the phrases long, short, symmetrical or uneven in length. • Count the number of bars in phrases.

  8. Counter Melody! • What instrument plays the counter melody? • Describe the contour of the counter melody. • Describe the phrases in the counter melody (long, short, symmetrical etc) • Count the number of bars for the counter melody.

  9. Other riffs & ostinatos? • What instrument plays the riff or melodic ostinatos? • How many notes in the riff/ostinato? • Describe the contour of the riff/ostinato (smooth, jagged, steps, leaps, ascending or descending). • Draw the contour of the ostinato. • Identify any intervals you can. • Where does the interval appear?

  10. Melodies working together • Is there call and response in the piece? • What instruments and where in the music? • Describe the use of repetition? • Describe the use of imitation? • How do the different melodic structures interact with themselves and each other?

  11. Unity • Unity refers to anything that is the same or similar. • Repeating melodies using the same instruments that introduce it or different instruments. • Melodies with similar contours (jagged, smooth etc) • Range and register. • Phrase lengths.

  12. Contrast? • Contrast refers to difference and diversity! • High and low sounding instruments. • Range and register. • Variations and ornamentation to the melody. • Changes in tonality/modulation. • Chord structures.

  13. Important words • Melody is a series of notes played one after another. • Harmony is at least 2 notes played at the same time. • Scales are a series of pitches based on a home pitch. • Tonic is the first note of a scale. • Key is the home pitch and scale used for a composition.

  14. more important words! • Drone or pedal point is a long continuous low pitch played to maintain a tonal centre. • Semitone is the smallest interval in diatonic harmony. • Tone is two semitones. • Modulation is when the key centre changes during a piece of music. • Chords are at least 3 or more pitches played at the same time.

  15. And more important words! • Cadence is a two chord progression that acts like a punctuation point in a musical phrase of section. The most common cadence is the V – I or perfect cadence. • Consonance is when two or more pitches played together sound “settled” or “sweet”. • Dissonance is when two or more pitches played together sound “unsettled” or “clashing”.

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