List of Concepts

CONCEPTS CHECKLIST AT ALL LEVELS

COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES CONTEXTS MELODIC HARMONIC RHYTHMIC STRUCTURAL TIMBRE STYLES / FORM Ascending Chord Repetition Single line Sound/ silence, louder/ softer Baroque Descending Chord change Faster/slower Unison /octave Sustained, Staccato, Legato, Striking, Blowing, Jazz

Stepwise Discord Pause, Accented Harmony, Solo Bowing, Strumming, Plucking, Slapping. Rock Leaping Beat / pulse Ensemble Orchestra: Woodwind, Brass, Strings, Percussion Pop Broken chord Simple time: 2,3 4 Ostinato, Riff, Bands: Brass, Pipe, Rock, Steel, Dance (Scottish), Scottish Repetition beats in a bar Round Wind / Military March Sequence On the beat Accompanied, Groups: Folk, Pop, Jazz Strathspey Phrase Off the beat Unaccompanied Instruments: Guitars (electric, acoustic) Drumkit Reel ACCESS 3 Question, answer Pattern, Drum fill Repetition Keyboards (piano, organ, synthesiser) Accordion, Waltz Scotch snap Contrast Fiddle, Pipes, Voice, Vocal, Choral, Lead vocals, Latin American Section Backing vocals Theme Chord progressions Down / up beat Chords ,Cluster Crescendo, Diminuendo Blues, Ragtime, Swing, Romantic, Variation using I, IV, V in major Anacrusis Arpeggio Individual instruments: Orchestra, Keyboard, Folk, Opera / Musical Imitation key Compound time Walking bass, Descant Scottish, String Fanfare, Concerto, Symphony

Ornament Tonality: major/minor Speed change: Contrary motion, Canon Recorders, Pan pipes Gaelic Psalms, Scots ballad, Scales: pentatonic, Vamp Accelerando, Binary, Ternary Voices: soprano, alto, tenor, bass Bothy ballad, Waulking song,

INT 1 major, minor, chromatic Drone Rallentando, AB, ABA, AABA Effects, distortion, reverb, delay, bending, rolls Mouth music, Slow air Tone, Semitone Change of key Rubato Minuet and Trio, Rondo Electronic drums, Ceilidh band, Chamber music Ghanaian, Indonesian gamelan Scat singing Syncopation Theme and variations Ghanaian drum ensemble, Gamelan Improvisation, Jig Programme, Middle 8 Latin percussion ensembles Samba, Salsa Modulating Chord progressions Groupings in Pedal Voices: mezzo soprano, countertenor, baritone Dixieland, Boogie-woogie Relative major, minor using I, IV, V, VI in simple and Inverted pedal Muted, Con sordino Impressionist, Minimalist Tonal major and minor key. compound time Ground bass Glissando, Aleatoric, Atonal Modulation Cross rhythms Alberti bass Flutter tonguing, Classical Grace note Modulation to relative Triplets Homophony Double stopping Scherzo Trill minor Dotted rhythms Polyphony, Arco, Cantata /Oratorio / Passion Syllabic word setting Perfect, imperfect Contrapuntal Pizzicato, Chorale / Hymn tune Melismatic word setting cadences Obbligato Col legno Pibroch

INT 2 Word painting Tierce de Picardie Countermelody Tremolando / Tremolo Recitative, Aria, Chorus Interval Suspension Strophic Vibrato Soul, Scales: blues, whole Passing note Through composed A Capella Country Tone, Interval Coda Register Indian Consonance, Cadenza 12 string guitar, Slide Guitar, Fretless Bass Guitar Dissonance Sitar, Tabla Mode Plagal, Interrupted Time change Episode, Exposition Harmonics Renaissance, Nationalist Harmonic and melodic Cadences Pulse and Beat, Subject, Coloratura Serial, Neo-Classical, minor Dominant 7th Irregular metres Counter-subject Sprechgesang Late Romantic, Jazz-funk Acciaccatura Diminished chord Three against two Transition, Bridge Consort Musique Concrete Appoggiatura Diminished 7th Hemiola Basso continuo Ripieno, Dances; Pavan, Galliard Turn Augmented chord Augmentation Sonata form Concertino Plainchant, Mass, Motet Mordent Added 6th Diminution Antiphonal, Inversion Madrigal, Suite, Overture, Sonata, Microtone Polytonality Retrograde Concerto grosso, Anthem, Air,

HIGHER Tritone Tonal answer, Chant, Chorale prelude, Ballett, Tone row Real Answer Chaconne / Passacaglia, Fugue, Leitmotif Lied, Song cycle, Symphonic / Stretto, Ritornello Tone poem, Da capo aria.

CONCEPTS CHECKLIST AT ALL LEVELS