Year 8

How can we add interest to a musical structure?

Year 8

How can we add interest to a musical structure?

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will be able to show how music has a sense of direction, by composing music within a structure.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What is a ternary form?
A song with 2 contrasting sections.
Correct answer: A structure with 3 sections - A B A, where B is contrasting.
A structure with a repeating refrain and contrasting episodes.
Q2.
What is rondo form?
A structure commonly used in West African music.
A structure with 3 sections. ABA, where B is contrasting.
Correct answer: A structure with a repeating refrain and contrasting episodes.
Q3.
What structure is ABACA?
Correct answer: Rondo
Song
Ternary
Q4.
What structure is Intro - Verse- Chorus- Outro?
Rondo
Correct answer: Song
Ternary
Q5.
Why is structure important in music?
Correct answer: It gives the music a sense of direction, a beginning, middle and an end.
It means that you can understand the lyrics and chords.
It means the listener can learn the song more easily.

5 Questions

Q1.
What is ternary form?
A structure that alternates between a refrain and episodes.
A structure used in pop songs with intro, verse, chorus and outro sections.
Correct answer: A structure with a section (A) that repeats after a contrasting (B) section.
Q2.
How can we turn two sections into a ternary (ABA) form?
Add a C section.
Compose a new section.
Correct answer: Repeat the first A section at the end.
Q3.
What is a 'link' section?
Correct answer: A short part of music that connects one section to another.
A stop signal.
The ropes that connect the skin of the djembe to the wood.
Q4.
How can we add interest to a structure?
Change songs half way through.
Correct answer: Develop the section that repeats.
Remove the B section.
Q5.
Which of the following is not a way to develop a section?
Add or remove notes
Change dynamics
Change sonority
Correct answer: Remove the entire section