Music notes
Music Knowledge
By Referring to the score of each List piece, candidates can be asked to:
Name and/or explain any notes, rests, signs, terms its title and its key/tonality
Identify (on the appropriate score) any key changes that occur, or explain other types of tonal organizations (atonal, pentatonic)
Explain form, through a detailed structural analysis. Where the piece is a movement from a larger work, brief knowledge of its relationship to the other movements in the work is expected
Either from the List piece score, or by reference to general characteristics not apparent on the score itself, candidates can be asked about:
Period and style appropriate to the piece. In addition, knowledge of the composer, his/her influences and some other works is expected. Knowledge of other genres typical of the period by not necessarily instrument-specific is also expected. (orchestral music, choral music)
Time Periods
Baroque
Usually expresses the one mood or emotion
Sudden dynamic shifts
Rhythmic patterns introduced at the beginning of a piece are repeated throughout
Melodies repeated throughout
Famous for its doctrine of mood. What is happy will be happy throughout and what is sad continues to the end
Opera, instrumental music
Classical
Fluctuates to provide sudden, dramatic contrasts of character
Sonatas, Rondos, Variations are used a lot
Flexible rhythm
Light, elegant and restrained
Beethoven, Mozart, Hadyn
Dynamics used to create contrast of mood and express emotions
Music with particular qualities of clarity and balance in melody, harmony and rhythm
Sonatas
Romantic
Ternary, Free form used a lot
Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Schubert
Passionate and expressive
Extreme emphasis on subjective, emotional qualities and greater freedom of form
New chords explored
Modern
Rhythmic vocabulary expanded, patterns became irregular, unusual, unpredictable
Large leaps
Romantic rules abandoned
Ever-changing time signatures
Unusual and noise-like sounds
By Referring to the score of each List piece, candidates can be asked to:
Name and/or explain any notes, rests, signs, terms its title and its key/tonality
Identify (on the appropriate score) any key changes that occur, or explain other types of tonal organizations (atonal, pentatonic)
Explain form, through a detailed structural analysis. Where the piece is a movement from a larger work, brief knowledge of its relationship to the other movements in the work is expected
Either from the List piece score, or by reference to general characteristics not apparent on the score itself, candidates can be asked about:
Period and style appropriate to the piece. In addition, knowledge of the composer, his/her influences and some other works is expected. Knowledge of other genres typical of the period by not necessarily instrument-specific is also expected. (orchestral music, choral music)
Time Periods
Baroque
Usually expresses the one mood or emotion
Sudden dynamic shifts
Rhythmic patterns introduced at the beginning of a piece are repeated throughout
Melodies repeated throughout
Famous for its doctrine of mood. What is happy will be happy throughout and what is sad continues to the end
Opera, instrumental music
Classical
Fluctuates to provide sudden, dramatic contrasts of character
Sonatas, Rondos, Variations are used a lot
Flexible rhythm
Light, elegant and restrained
Beethoven, Mozart, Hadyn
Dynamics used to create contrast of mood and express emotions
Music with particular qualities of clarity and balance in melody, harmony and rhythm
Sonatas
Romantic
Ternary, Free form used a lot
Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Schubert
Passionate and expressive
Extreme emphasis on subjective, emotional qualities and greater freedom of form
New chords explored
Modern
Rhythmic vocabulary expanded, patterns became irregular, unusual, unpredictable
Large leaps
Romantic rules abandoned
Ever-changing time signatures
Unusual and noise-like sounds