GCSE Music Cover Lessons

Six 'listening and appraising' exam-style questions exploring dynamics, rhythmic devices, time signatures, structural devices, melodic movement, melodic devices, pitch recognition and dictation, melodic intervals, range, harmonic language, cadences, chords, sonority/timbre, instrumental and vocal groupings, instrumental and vocal roles within an ensemble, texture, tonality

Questions on melodic dictation, melodic description, rhythmic and harmonic devices, texture, dynamics, instrumental roles and playing techniques, timbre, ornamentation, key recognition, metre

Questions on playing techniques, describing melodic shapes, degrees of the scale, pitch, intervals, structure, rhythmic and harmonic devices, Italian terms for tempo, dynamics, orchestration

Questions on intervals, tonality, timbre recognition, dynamics, metre, Roman numerals for harmony, rhythmic devices, degrees of the scale, ornamentation, tempo, voice types, keys

Questions on melodic dictation, keys, texture, degrees of the scale, rhythmic devices, timbre recognition, phrase structure, playing techniques, Italian tempo terms, chord recognition, intervals, tonality

Questions on chord progressions, metre, texture, timbre, rhythmic recognition, ornamentation, tonality, texture, rhythmic devices, intervals, structures, keys, cadences, types of scale

Questions on rhythm, intervals, tonality, compositional devices, phrase structures, dynamics, texture, cadences, tonality, metre, deployment of forces, Baroque characteristics and genres

Questions on deployment of forces, compositional devices, playing techniques, modulation, Italian tempo terms, tonality, texture, structure, rhythmic notation recognition

Questions on texture, timbre, playing techniques, melodic dictation, rhythmic notation, dynamics, ornamentation, cadences, ensemble groups, comp devices, Classical genres and composers