Music flashcards

42 TCE Music cards across 4 modules (14 definitions, 28 key facts, 0 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

Aural and Music Theory (33 cards, 11 dot points)
Composition and Arranging (3 cards, 1 dot point)
- Composition and Arranging Techniques - TCE Music (Tasmania) (3)
Critical Listening Analysis (3 cards, 1 dot point)
- Analysing Music and Musical Elements - TCE Music (Tasmania) (3)
Performance Skills (3 cards, 1 dot point)
- Performance Skills and Interpretation - TCE Music (Tasmania) (3)

Sample cards from this deck

Definition
Aural Identification of Compositional Devices - TCE Music (Tasmania)
Define Ostinato versus pedal point
An ostinato is a repeated rhythmic or melodic pattern. A pedal point is a single held or repeated pitch under changing harmony.
Definition
Composition and Arranging Techniques - TCE Music (Tasmania)
Define Motif and development
A motif is the smallest recognisable musical idea, often just a few notes. Developing it means transforming it (sequence, inversion, augmentation and so on) so the piece feels coherent and grows from a single source rather than a collection of unrelated fragments.
Definition
Analysing Music and Musical Elements - TCE Music (Tasmania)
Define Texture types
Monophonic texture is a single unaccompanied line. Homophonic texture is a clear melody supported by chords.
Definition
Performance Skills and Interpretation - TCE Music (Tasmania)
Define Musicianship
Musicianship is the artistry that goes beyond playing the right notes: shaping phrases, balancing within an ensemble, listening and responding, and communicating the character of the music.
Definition
Aural Transcription and Dictation - TCE Music (Tasmania)
Define Scale-degree thinking
Instead of naming absolute pitches, hear each note as a number in the key (1 for tonic, 5 for dominant, and so on). Movable-do solfege does the same job.
Definition
Chords and Harmony - TCE Music (Tasmania)
Define Root, third and fifth
The root names the chord and sits at the bottom when the chord is in root position. The third decides whether the chord is major or minor.
Definition
Intervals and Transposition - TCE Music (Tasmania)
Define Quality and number
The number of an interval counts letter names inclusively (C to G is a fifth). The quality (perfect, major, minor, augmented, diminished) measures the exact size in semitones.
Definition
Melodic Perception and Identification - TCE Music (Tasmania)
Define Contour
Contour is the overall up-and-down shape of a melody, ignoring exact pitches. Two phrases can share a contour but differ in one interval.
Definition
Melody Writing and Notation Conventions - TCE Music (Tasmania)
Define Antecedent and consequent
The antecedent is the opening phrase that sounds unfinished, usually closing on a half cadence. The consequent is the answering phrase that resolves to the tonic.
Definition
Modes and Improvisational Devices - TCE Music (Tasmania)
Define Mode
A mode is a scale defined by its unique pattern of tones and semitones around a tonic. Transposing a mode keeps that pattern: D Dorian and G Dorian sound like the same mode at different pitches, just as two major scales do.