KEY MUSICAL FEATURES:
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DYNAMICS: Volume (soft, loud)
Range (No dynamics, little dynamics)
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TEXTURE: Thick or thin (how
many instruments playing at once) Type (monophonic, polyphonic, homophonic,
heterophonic)
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MELODY: Who is playing the
melody, how the melody develops
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HARMONY: Dissonance,
Consonance, Intervals
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TONALITY: Major (happy), Minor
(sad), Atonal (no tone), Bitonality (two tones), Mode (different collection of
tones and semitones)
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RHYTHM (SYNCOPATION,ACCENTED
NOTES, USE OF RESTS ETC…):
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INSTRUMENTATION: Instruments
being used (orchestra, quartet, solo)
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TIMBRE / TONE COLOUR: Light,
Brittle, Heavy, Think, Murky
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DURATION: Length of the notes
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PEDAL (single note)/ DRONE (two
notes)/ GROUND BASS (Repeating bass pattern)/ PROMINENT CHORD PROGRESSIONS (1,
4, 5, 1)
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USE OF ORNAMENTATION (Trills,
turns)/ EMBELLISHMENT (VOCAL, TRILL, TURN ETC..)
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TIME SIGNATURE (4/4, 2/4, 6/8 etc…)
HISTORICAL/CONTEXTUAL:
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POSSIBLE COUNTRY (World music)
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TYPE OF WORK (SYMPHONY, TRIO,
MASS,OPERA, BALLET, FILM ETC…)
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GENRE OF MUSIC (MINIMALISM,
POP, FOLK ETC…)
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TIME PERIOD – WHY? (BAROQUE,
CLASSICAL ETC…)
