GCSE Music Elements

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: forte, piano, the mezzos, the issimos, crecendo, diminuendo, sforzando, fortepiano. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: pedal note, drone, ground bass, chordal ostinato, Tierce de Picardie, circle of 5ths. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: perfect, imperfect, plagal and interrupted cadences, functional harmony, key relationships and the circle of 5ths in relation to key relationships. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: major and minor triads, chord hierarchy in tonal schemes, dominant 7ths, diminished 7ths, harmonic rhythm. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.

Practice questions and aural training exercises to support melodic dictation, interval recognition, the identification of melodic devices, ornamentation, degrees of the scale, scale identification, describing melodic shapes and movement, distinguishing melodic lines from one another, and melodic comparison questions. 30 extracts in total, including 14 single line score questions.

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: step, leap, conjunct, disjunct, scalic, triadic, arpeggiaic, rising, falling, ascending and descending sequences, repetition, range. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: time signatures, simple duple, triple, quadruple, compound duple, triple, quadruple, asymmetric metres, metric change. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: reverb, ambience, delay, slap back echo, chorus, EQ, filter sweep, overdubbing, ADT, varispeed, reverse. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: dotted, lombardic, syncopation, triplet, shuffle, swung, anacrusis, polyrhythm, crossrhythm, augmentation, diminution, hemiola. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: BPM, largo, andante, moderato, allegro, vivace, presto, accelerando, rit, rall, rubato. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.

Solo, monophonic, melody and accompaniment, unison, octaves, homophonic, tutti, question and answer, call and response, homorhythm, canon, strict counterpoint, imitation, polyphony, fugue

Examples and practice questions focusing on the following specialist language: major, minor, modal, diatonic, pentatonic, functional, non-functional, chromatic, consonant, dissonant, microtonal, atonal, modulatory, modulation to dominant, relative major and relative minor. This resource also includes an additional playlist to use as the basis for devising further questions.