Music flashcards

68 VCE Music cards across 2 modules (22 definitions, 46 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

Unit 3: Performance and music language (26 cards, 9 dot points)
Unit 4: Performance, analysis and composition (42 cards, 14 dot points)

Sample cards from this deck

Definition
Chord and cadence aural recognition in VCE Music
Define Chord quality
Chord quality is the character of a chord created by its intervals: major (bright), minor (dark), dominant seventh (bright but tense and wanting to resolve), and diminished (very tense). In aural work you identify quality from this colour rather than by counting written intervals.
Definition
Analysing music using elements and concepts in VCE Music
Define core elements of music
The core elements of music are pitch (melody and harmony), rhythm and metre, tempo, dynamics (loudness), articulation (how notes are attacked and joined), tone colour or timbre (the quality of a sound), texture (how many layers and how they combine) and structure (how sections are organised).
Definition
Chords and harmonic progressions in VCE Music
Define major triad
A major triad is a major third plus a minor third (root, major third, perfect fifth). A minor triad is a minor third plus a major third.
Definition
Arranging and re-orchestration in VCE Music
Define arrangement
An arrangement is a reworking of existing music for different performing forces or in a different style, keeping the original recognisable.
Definition
Intervals, scales and modes in VCE Music
Define Dorian
Dorian is a minor mode with a raised sixth, common in folk and jazz.
Definition
Comparing interpretations and performances in VCE Music
Define performance decision
A performance decision is a choice a performer makes that is not fully fixed by the notation: the exact tempo and whether it fluctuates, the precise dynamic shaping, the articulation and attack, the use of rubato and expressive timing, the tone colour and vibrato, and any ornamentation or improvisation.
Definition
Key signatures and the circle of fifths in VCE Music
Define order of sharps
The order of sharps is F, C, G, D, A, E, B. The order of flats is the exact reverse: B, E, A, D, G, C, F.
Definition
Composition techniques and devices in VCE Music
Define motif
A motif is the smallest meaningful unit of musical material, a short melodic or rhythmic idea that can be repeated, transformed and developed to give a piece coherence and identity.
Definition
Melodic transcription and aural skills in VCE Music
Define scale degree
A scale degree is a note's numbered position in the key: 1 is the tonic, 5 is the dominant, 7 is the leading note, and so on. Hearing "this note is the third of the key" is faster and more reliable than measuring every interval from the previous note.
Definition
Compositional devices in analysis for VCE Music
Define compositional device
A compositional device is a recognised technique for developing or organising musical material.