Learn Credit concepts. Rhythm and Structure
Simple time ||Compound time ||Cross rhythms|| Triplet | Dotted Rhythm | Alberti bass || Ground bass ||Pedal | Inverted pedal ||Homophony | Polyphony | Obbligato ||Countermelody ||Strophic || Through composed | Cadenza ||Coda | Contrapuntal
Rhythmic :
Listen to an excerpt in simple time using some of the rhythms. Below is a major scale in simple time
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Listen to an excerpt of a Jig in compound time using some of the rhythms below. |
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Literally what it says, rhythms which crosses the beat or pulse of the music. and has the effect of complicated syncopation.
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Three equal value notes within one beat |
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A short not followed by a longer one |
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Structural |
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A type of bass part built on chords being split up into quaver type arpeggios using a root 5th 3rd 5th pattern as below.
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| A melody, sometimes up to eight bars in length, which is played throughout the bass part of a piece of music and over which the rest of the composition is built. A device often used in Baroque Music e.g. Dido’s Lament from Dido and Aeneas by Purcell. Listen to an excerpt by Purcell for two Counter tenors with a Ground bass. | ||
| A long sustained, or repeated note in the bass part over which a whole or part of a composition is built. | ||
The ‘opposite’ of a Pedal , a long sustained note in the top of or above a melody. |
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| Music in which the parts move together in block chords. e.g. a Hymn Tune. The opposite of Polyphony. | ||
| A style of music in two or more parts in which each part is independent and of equal importance. | ||
| An essential part or decorative line written above the melody. This was particularly used in Baroque music as a decoration above a vocal solo line. | ||
| Usually a instrumental line which moves and complements a main melody in another part. | ||
A verse repeating song with a chorus such as a Ballad. The bothy ballad originates in Aberdeenshire. This example is a Scottish Folk Song |
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| A piece of music or song which does not have a chorus repeat | ||
| A brilliant solo passage in a Concerto in which the soloist shows off how well he plays his instrument. This section is unaccompanied and usually comes after the recapitulation in a movement in Sonata Form. | ||
| The concluding section at the end of a movement, to give the feeling of finality. | ||
| Texture in which each of two or more parts has independent melodic interest; similar in meaning to polyphonic. |
