{"id":443,"date":"2020-09-22T13:31:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T12:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/createresources\/?page_id=443"},"modified":"2023-02-28T07:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T07:19:42","slug":"glossary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/createresources\/glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Glossary of Musical Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Glossary of Musical Terms <\/h3>\n
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Accompaniment\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nAn additional musical part which supports the main voice or instrument.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beat\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nThe basic regular pulse you feel in music.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Body percussion\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nUsing the body as an instrument to create sounds (e.g. clapping, stomping, snapping fingers).\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brass\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nA family of wind instruments made from metal with cupped mouth pieces (e.g. trumpet, trombone, tube).\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conductor\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nA person who stands at the front of a group of musicians (e.g. orchestra or choir) and directs the performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crescendo\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nGradually getting louder.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Diminuendo\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nGradually getting quieter.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dynamics\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nThe volume of sound \u2013 the loud or soft passages in a piece of music.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ensemble\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nA group of musicians that perform together.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Forte\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nLoud.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Glissando\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nSliding from one note to another, taking in all the notes in between.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graphic Score\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nA way in which a piece of music can be written down using shapes, pictures and symbols.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harmony\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nThe sound of two or more notes played\/sung at the same time.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kod\u00e1ly rhythm names\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nThe names for different rhythm values help learners to understand and say rhythms accurately. (Relates to the NYCoS Singing Games <\/i>and Go for Bronze <\/i>resources.)\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kod\u00e1ly handsigns\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nEach pitch of the scale is given a solfa name and corresponding handsign to help learners understand the relationship between different pitches. (Relates to the NYCoS Singing Games and Go for Bronze resources)\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Legato\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nNotes are played or sung smoothly.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Melody\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nNotes played one after the other to make a tune.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mezzo-forte\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nModerately loud.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ostinato\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nA repeating pattern.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pentatonic Scale\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nA scale of five notes (do, re, mi, so, la).\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Percussion (tuned and untuned)\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nInstruments that are played by hitting, striking, shaking or scraping. Tuned percussion can play a range of notes at different pitches. Untuned percussion mostly have one pitch or sound.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Piano\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nSoft (quiet).\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pictorial rhythm notation\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nPictures that show the rhythm of a song\/rhyme.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pitch\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nThe highness or lowness of a sound, i.e. higher or lower notes in a melody.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Round\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nSinging in a round means harmony is created when each voice\/group sings the same melody, beginning at different times.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rhythm\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nA pattern of sounds in time which can be long or short or of equal duration.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rhythm Stick Notation\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nThe stems of notes used to write down rhythm.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Soundscape\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nAn atmosphere or environment created by sound.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stave\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nA set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different pitch.
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Staccato\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nNotes are short and detached.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Strings\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nA family of instruments with strings that are plucked or bowed (e.g. violin, viola, cello).\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Structure\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nHow the music is organised into different sections (e.g. verse, chorus or beginning, middle, end).
\nBinary form: in 2 sections (AB)
\nTernary form: In 3 sections (ABA)\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tempo\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nThe speed of a piece of music.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Texture\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nHow many instruments or voices there are. The more instruments\/voices, the thicker the texture.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Timbre\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nThe sound quality that causes different instruments to sound different from each other when they are playing the same note.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time signature\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nThe top number tells you how many beats are in every bar. The bottom number tells you what kind of beat it is.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Unison\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nTwo or more instruments or voices playing\/singing the same pitch at the same time.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Woodwind\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nA family of wind instruments made from a long tube of wood or metal. Sound is created by blowing through a reed or across a small mouthpiece (e.g. clarinet, flute, oboe).\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
World music\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nDifferent styles of music from around the world (e.g. Latin American, Indian, African).\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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