Year 8

How is a ground bass related to chords?

Year 8

How is a ground bass related to chords?

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will recap all our knowledge of Baroque music so far. We will recap how to perform melodies from Pachelbel's Canon ensuring they are musical and stylistic. We will then learn how to use a Digital Audio Workstation to place these melodies into a contrapuntal texture.

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10 Questions

Q1.
What is a phrase?
A melody
Correct answer: A musical sentence
The number of beats in a bar
Q2.
How many phrases are there in 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'?
2
Correct answer: 3
4
Q3.
How long is each phrase in 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'?
3 bars
Correct answer: 4 bars
5 bars
Q4.
Complete the sentence: 'A time signature tells us how many beats in a _______'
Correct answer: Bar
Melody
Phrase
Q5.
Complete the sentence: 'Each of the melodies in Pachelbel's Canon are ____ bars long'
16
Correct answer: 4
8
Q6.
What is the correct word for getting louder?
Correct answer: Crescendo
Diminuendo
Staccato
Q7.
What is the correct word for getting quieter?
Crescendo
Correct answer: Diminuendo
Staccato
Q8.
When you see a slur between two notes, what does it tell you to do?
Correct answer: Play smoothly between the two notes
Play the two notes at the same time
Play the two notes loudly
Q9.
What is staccato?
Correct answer: Playing in a short and spiky way
Playing loudly
Playing smoothly
Q10.
What is legato?
Playing in a short and spiky way
Playing loudly
Correct answer: Playing smoothly

10 Questions

Q1.
When was the Baroque Period?
1500-1600
Correct answer: 1600-1750
1700-1850
Q2.
What is the main texture of Pachelbel's Canon in D?
Correct answer: Contrapuntal
Homophonic
Monophonic
Q3.
What are the two sharps in the key of D major?
Correct answer: F# C#
F# D#
F# E#
Q4.
In a scale, what number note is the 'root' note?
Correct answer: 1
3
5
Q5.
Which instrument would we find in the Baroque period?
Clarinet
Correct answer: Harpsichord
Piano
Q6.
What is a canon?
Playing in counterpoint
When a person sings or plays a different part, but comes in later
Correct answer: When a person sings or plays exactly the same part, but comes in later
Q7.
What do we call melodic decorations in music?
Additions
Colour
Correct answer: Ornaments
Q8.
What is this ornament and how do you play it?
An image in a quiz
A grace note, you play it very quickly before another note
Correct answer: A mordent - you play the note above or below very quickly
A trill - you alternate between two notes very quickly
Q9.
What is a phrase?
A melody
Correct answer: A musical sentence
The number of beats in a bar
Q10.
What is the correct word for getting louder?
Correct answer: Crescendo
Diminuendo
Staccato