Music flashcards

63 QCE Music cards across 4 modules (16 definitions, 42 key facts, 5 fill-the-gap, 0 formulas). Each session gives you 20 cards, due cards first. Swipe right for easy, left for hard, down for again. Keyboard: Space to flip, 1 to 4 to rate.

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What this deck covers

Assessment: performance (IA1) (6 cards, 3 dot points)
Foundations: music language and theory (4 cards, 2 dot points)
- Aural skills and score reading (QCE Music foundations) (2)
- Music language theory and notation (QCE Music foundations) (2)
Unit 3: Innovations (27 cards, 8 dot points)
Unit 4: Narratives (26 cards, 8 dot points)

Sample cards from this deck

Key fact
External assessment musicology examination (QCE Music)
Tell me about Reading the stimulus efficiently
Your first minutes decide the response. If the stimulus is audio, use your hearings deliberately: one pass for structure and section boundaries, further passes for specific elements, building a timed map.
Key fact
Aural skills and score reading (QCE Music foundations)
Tell me about Active listening, not passive hearing
Most listening is passive: the music washes over you. Analytical listening is active and goal-directed.
Definition
Composing with innovative devices (QCE Music Unit 3)
Define Duration
Tempo, metre and rhythmic devices set energy and momentum. Irregular metres, additive rhythm, polyrhythm and metric modulation are innovative duration devices.
Definition
Composing music for narrative (QCE Music Unit 4)
Define Harmony and mood
Use consonance and dissonance, mode and key, to set and shift mood. Resolution suggests safety; sustained tension suggests danger. A move from major to minor can darken the story in an instant.
Key fact
Integrated project IA3 (QCE Music)
Tell me about Integration, not three tasks
The defining feature of IA3 is that the roles connect. In a weak project, a student analyses one thing, composes an unrelated thing, and performs a third, and the result is three thin tasks.
Key fact
Music language theory and notation (QCE Music foundations)
Tell me about Harmony: chords and progressions
Chords are stacked intervals, usually thirds. Triads (major, minor, diminished, augmented) and seventh chords are the core vocabulary, extended in innovative repertoire to ninths, elevenths and added-note or quartal chords.
Definition
Music elements and concepts in Innovations (QCE Music Unit 3)
Define Texture
Texture is how musical lines combine: monophonic (single line), homophonic (melody plus accompaniment), polyphonic (independent lines) and heterophonic (variants of one line). Layering, density and the addition or removal of parts shape the listener's sense of intensity.
Definition
Music and narrative meaning (QCE Music Unit 4)
Define Duration
Tempo and rhythm set pace and energy. A quickening tempo and driving rhythm signal pursuit or rising stakes; a slowing, free pulse signals reflection or loss.
Key fact
Performance assessment IA1 (QCE Music)
Tell me about Building technical security
Technical control is the foundation: accurate pitch and rhythm, reliable tone, clean execution, and stamina across the program. Security is what frees you to interpret, since you cannot shape a phrase you are struggling to play.
Definition
Musicology analysing innovative works (QCE Music Unit 3)
Define Claim
State your judgment about how meaning is communicated.