Year 9 Music revision

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Year 9Music revision
There is a copy of this powerpoint on the
mrtuckerteacher.com. Use it to revise!

• Your music exam will be on the 8th May. It will
  be a listening exam, where you are played music
  and asked questions about them. It will cover all
  the topics you have done this year, plus some
  general music questions. Together with your
  practical work from this year, it will contribute
  to your final KS3 music level.

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The Elements of Music
all the way from the start of Year 7 you should
know all of these!
Contrast Element
Pitch
Duration
Tempo
Dynamics
Timbre
Texture
Structure
SILENCE!
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The Elements of Music
all the way from the start of Year 7 you should
know all of these!
Contrast Element
High/low Pitch
Long/short Duration
Fast/slow Tempo
Loud/soft Dynamics
Tone colour Timbre
Thick/thin Texture
The overall plan Structure
SILENCE!
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Can you identify each part of the kit?
A
C
B
D
1 Snare 2 Kick/bass drum 3 Hi-hat 4 Ride 5
Crash 6 Toms
E
F
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Can you identify each part of the kit?
toms
crash
ride
Hi-hat
snare
Kick/bass
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What are the different families of instruments?
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What are the different families of instruments?
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Which family does this instrument belong to?

• Why?

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Which family does this instrument belong to?

• The saxophone is a woodwind instrument even
  though it is made of metal.
• This is because it has a reed, just like a
  clarinet.

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What type of instrument is the piano?
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What type of instrument is the piano?
The piano is a percussion instrument, because the
hammers hit the strings.
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Basic music theory rhythm and time signatures
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Basic music theory rhythm
Name Symbol How many beats?





2 quavers
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Basic music theory rhythm
Name Symbol How many beats?
Crotchet 1
Minim 2
Semibreve 4
Quaver ½ each
Rest 1
2 quavers
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Basic music theory pitch
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Basic music theory pitch
Every Good Boy Deserves Food
Every Green Bus Drives Fast
The notes in the spaces are easy to remember
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Basic music theory pitch
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Club dance what were the differences between the
styles?

• Think about
• Tempo
• Sounds/instruments used
• Style of singing
• Type of drum beats used

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Club dance what were the differences between the
styles?

• Tempo Trip hop is slow, drumnbass fast, and
  house is medium tempo
• Sounds/instruments used Trip hop may include
  orchestral instruments. Otherwise expect lots of
  synthesised sounds. Drumnbass has lots of
  effects and processing.
• Style of singing House vocals tend to be
  soulful. The voice in drumnbass may be heavily
  processed. In trip hop the voice may sound
  melancholy.
• Type of drum beats used house uses a basic disco
  beat. Drumnbass beats are very complex.

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Disco features

• DRUM BEAT has three distinct parts
• Four on the floor bass (kick) drum on every beat
• Back beat snare on beats 2 and 4
• Syncopation (off the beat) on the hi-hat
• THEN THERE ARE OTHER FEATURES
• Hook the catchy bit!
• Bass line with octave leaps
• Countermelody extra melody over the top of the
  main melody, often played by strings
• DISCO STARTED IN THE 1970s

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Disco can you remember the features?

• What are the parts of the drum beat?
• What is the catchy bit called?
• What characterises the bass line?
• What name would you give to the extra tune played
  on top by violins?
• Which decade did disco start in?

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Minimalism what do you know?
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Minimalism
An American style, starting in the 1960s, based
on repeating and slowly changing patterns
Changing a pattern one note at a time
Terry Riley Philip Glass Steve Reich
Chords gradually fading in and out
In C Electric Counterpoint Clapping Music
Patterns of different lengths played at the same
time
Filling the gaps in a pattern one note at a time