Music flashcards

What this deck covers

• Analysis and Musicology (15 cards, 5 dot points)

  • Elements of Music (SACE Stage 2 Music) (2)
  • Form and Structure (SACE Stage 2 Music) (3)
  • Harmonic Analysis and Roman Numerals (SACE Stage 2 Music) (3)
  • Musicology, Styles and Context (SACE Stage 2 Music) (4)
  • Stylistic and Comparative Analysis (SACE Stage 2 Music) (3)
• Musical Literacy (9 cards, 3 dot points)

  • Standard Notation and Score-Reading (SACE Stage 2 Music) (2)
  • Texture and Instrumentation (SACE Stage 2 Music) (4)
  • Tonality and Modulation (SACE Stage 2 Music) (3)
• Performance and Composition (25 cards, 7 dot points)

  • Composition and Arranging (SACE Stage 2 Music) (5)
  • Ensemble Performance Skills (SACE Stage 2 Music) (5)
  • Motif Development and Melody Writing (SACE Stage 2 Music) (3)
  • Music Technology and Production (SACE Stage 2 Music) (4)
  • Performance Skills and Interpretation (SACE Stage 2 Music) (2)
  • Reflecting and Evaluating Performance (SACE Stage 2 Music) (3)
  • Solo Performance and Technique (SACE Stage 2 Music) (3)
• Music Theory and Aural (25 cards, 8 dot points)

  • Aural Skills and Transcription (SACE Stage 2 Music) (3)
  • Cadences and Harmonic Progression (SACE Stage 2 Music) (4)
  • Chords and Harmony (SACE Stage 2 Music) (3)
  • Intervals and Scales (SACE Stage 2 Music) (3)
  • Key Signatures and the Circle of Fifths (SACE Stage 2 Music) (3)
  • Melodic Dictation and Sight-Singing (SACE Stage 2 Music) (3)
  • Rhythm, Metre and Tempo (SACE Stage 2 Music) (3)
  • Transposition and Clefs (SACE Stage 2 Music) (3)

Sample cards from this deck

1. Definition

   Musicology, Styles and Context (SACE Stage 2 Music)

   Define Baroque

   Baroque (roughly 1600 to 1750): functional harmony, basso continuo, ornamentation, terraced dynamics, contrapuntal textures, forms such as fugue and concerto grosso.

2. Definition

   Texture and Instrumentation (SACE Stage 2 Music)

   Define Instrumentation

   Instrumentation is the selection of instruments or voices, and timbre is the distinctive tone colour each produces, the quality that lets you tell a trumpet from a violin playing the same pitch. Timbre is shaped by the instrument, its register, dynamic, and playing technique (a muted trumpet, a pizzicato string, a breathy flute). Composers choose timbres for their expressive associations: warm strings, brilliant brass, plaintive oboe, percussive piano.

3. Definition

   Composition and Arranging (SACE Stage 2 Music)

   Define Augmentation and diminution

   Augmentation and diminution (lengthening or shortening note values).

4. Definition

   Cadences and Harmonic Progression (SACE Stage 2 Music)

   Define Pre-dominant function

   Pre-dominant function (IV, ii): movement away from home that prepares the dominant.

5. Fill the gap

   Form and Structure (SACE Stage 2 Music)

   All music balances ___ (repeated, familiar material that holds a piece together) against variety (contrast that keeps it interesting).

   All music balances unity (repeated, familiar material that holds a piece together) against variety (contrast that keeps it interesting).

6. Fill the gap

   Tonality and Modulation (SACE Stage 2 Music)

   ___ tonality tends to sound bright and stable; minor sounds darker, using the minor third and the raised leading note for cadences.

   Major tonality tends to sound bright and stable; minor sounds darker, using the minor third and the raised leading note for cadences.

7. Definition

   Ensemble Performance Skills (SACE Stage 2 Music)

   Define Balance

   Balance is about volume: knowing when your part is the melody and should project, and when it is accompaniment and should sit back to let another line through. Blend is about tone and tuning: matching your sound and intonation to the rest of the group so the ensemble sounds unified rather than a collection of soloists. Both require listening outward, constantly comparing your sound to the whole, rather than focusing only on your own part.

8. Fill the gap

   Aural Skills and Transcription (SACE Stage 2 Music)

   Find the ___ by listening to where the music comes to rest, then hum the scale to fix the key.

   Find the tonic by listening to where the music comes to rest, then hum the scale to fix the key.

9. Fill the gap

   Harmonic Analysis and Roman Numerals (SACE Stage 2 Music)

   For each beat or harmonic change, gather the notes sounding together and rearrange them into a stack of thirds to find the ___.

   For each beat or harmonic change, gather the notes sounding together and rearrange them into a stack of thirds to find the root.

10. Key fact

    Standard Notation and Score-Reading (SACE Stage 2 Music)

    Tell me about Ornaments and special symbols

    Notation includes a vocabulary of ornaments and signs you must recognise: trills, mordents, turns and grace notes decorate a melody; pause marks (fermatas) hold a note; repeat signs, first and second time bars, da capo and dal segno control which sections are played and in what order.