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This document provides an overview of concepts covered in Advanced Higher Music, including various styles, elements of melody/harmony, rhythm/texture, and music literacy content. Some styles discussed are Renaissance forms like the pavan and galliard, as well as genres like the motet, ayre/air, ballett, and madrigal. Elements of melody and harmony examined include appoggiaturas, turns, suspensions, tritones, polytonality/bitonality, tone rows, and various chords. Rhythm concepts cover hemiola, while texture and structure analyze forms like fugues, antiphonal works, and song cycles. Music literacy focuses on chords, inversions, trans

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Ah Concepts Grid

This document provides an overview of concepts covered in Advanced Higher Music, including various styles, elements of melody/harmony, rhythm/texture, and music literacy content. Some styles discussed are Renaissance forms like the pavan and galliard, as well as genres like the motet, ayre/air, ballett, and madrigal. Elements of melody and harmony examined include appoggiaturas, turns, suspensions, tritones, polytonality/bitonality, tone rows, and various chords. Rhythm concepts cover hemiola, while texture and structure analyze forms like fugues, antiphonal works, and song cycles. Music literacy focuses on chords, inversions, trans

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Advanced Higher Music Concepts

Styles

Melody/
Harmony

Rhythm/
Harmony

Renaissance
Pavan
Galliard
Motet
Ayre/Air
Ballett
Madrigal
Anthem
Neo-Classical
Serial
Chorale
Nationalist
Electronic
dance music
Contemporar
y jazz

Appoggiatura
Turn
Suspension
Tritone
Polytonality/
Bitonality
Tone Row/
Note row
Augmented
triad
Chords I, IV,
V and VI in
major and
minor keys
Chord II and
1st inversion
(major key
only)

Hemiola

Texture/Struc
ture/
Form
Fugue
Subject
Countersubject
Answer
Stretto
Antiphonal
Bridge
Leitmotiv
Inversion
Retrograde
Song Cycle

Music Literacy Content


Melody / Harmony
Identifying/Inserting chords to
cadence points and under melodies
Diminished 7th
Dominant 7th
Added 6th
1st and 2nd inversions of major and
minor triads
Chord II and 1st inversion (major key
only)
Bass Clef C-E
Transposing bass clef into treble clef
Rewriting (in either treble or bass clef)
a note at the same pitch using up to 2
ledger lines below or above the stave
Enharmonic equivalent rewriting a
note at the same pitch
Scales and key signature D major, B
flat major, E minor and D minor
8va (octave higher); 8vb (octave
lower)
Augmented triad

Rhythm / Tempo
Ties
Syncopated rhythms
Time signature: 5
4
Dal segno D.S.
Fine
Time changes

Timbre/
Dynamics
Consort
Counter tenor
Sprechgesan
g
Piano Trio

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