1. Please sit facing the front Please could two people give out folders Take a clipboard from the yellow box if you would like to use one

2. Year 8 Music revision Your music exam will be next lesson. 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. There is a copy of this powerpoint on misswerrysclasses.com. Use it to revise!

3. The Elements of Music ContrastElement Pitch Duration Tempo Dynamics Timbre Texture Structure SILENCE! …all the way from the start of Year 7… you should know all of these!

4. The Elements of Music ContrastElement High/lowPitch Long/shortDuration Fast/slowTempo Loud/softDynamics Tone colour Timbre Thick/thinTexture The overall plan Structure SILENCE! …all the way from the start of Year 7… you should know all of these!

5. What are the different families of instruments?

7. Basic music theory: rhythm and time signatures

8. Basic music theory: rhythm NameSymbolHow many beats? 2 quavers:

9. Basic music theory: rhythm NameSymbolHow many beats? Crotchet1 Minim2 Semibreve4 Quaver½ each Rest1 2 quavers: There will be questions in the exam where you have to write down rhythms.

10. Basic music theory: pitch

11. The notes in the spaces are easy to remember: Every Good Boy Deserves Food Every Green Bus Drives Fast

12. Basic music theory: pitch There will be questions in the exam where you have to write down a simple melody that you hear.

13. Interval = the distance between two notes Count the note you are starting from as 1. Then just count up or down to the other note, i.e. We call this interval a sixth (not a 6!) D = 1 so B = 6

14. Variations: definitions Sequence = repeating the motif higher or lower each time Interval = the distance between two notes Parallel motion = two parts moving together, always the same distance apart

15. Variations: more definitions Contrary motion = moving in opposite directions. The opposite of parallel motion. Inversion = playing it upside down Retrograde = playing it backwards Augmentation = make each note twice as long

16. 12 bar blues CCCC FFCC GFCC (G) turnaround

17. Two or more notes played together Flip the notes of the chord Four notes in the chord: the extra one is a seventh above the root, i.e. G7=GBDF Making it up on the spot Fitting in with the style: stylish When you substitute a G(7) chord in bar 12, to take you back to the start The lowest part for blues