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Year 4Initial ยท The elements of music
How loud or quiet the music is.
- fforte
- loud
- ppiano
- quiet
- silence
- a sudden stop in the sound
Patterns of long and short sounds and silences, played over a steady pulse - the heartbeat of the music.
- pulse
- the steady beat underneath the music
- legato
- smooth, the notes joined
- staccato
- short and detached
How a piece is put together: its sections, and the order they come in.
- same or different
- sections that come back, and sections that are new
The tune: a line of notes that moves up and down in pitch.
- high or low
- where the notes sit in pitch
- up or down
- the tune rises or falls
Which instruments and voices are playing.
- piano, violin, flute, trumpet
- four sounds to know
How many layers of sound there are, and how they fit together.
- thin or thick
- a single instrument, or several at once
The colour of a sound: what makes a flute sound different from a violin playing the same note.
Coming in Year 6 (Grade 2)
Whether the music sounds major or minor, and where its home - its Tonal Centre - is.
Coming in Year 7 (Grade 3)
How fast or slow the music is.
- fast or slow
- the speed of the pulse
Notes sounding together - chords - and how they move.
Coming in Year 8 (Grade 3)
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