1. There is a copy of this powerpoint on the mrtuckerteacher. com
There is a copy of this powerpoint on the mrtuckerteacher.com. Use it to revise!
Year 9 Music revision
Your music exam will be on the 8th May. 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. Together with your practical work from this year, it will contribute to your final KS3 music level.

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

3. The Elements of Music SILENCE! Contrast Element High/low Pitch
…all the way from the start of Year 7… you should know all of these!
The Elements of Music
Contrast
Element
High/low
Pitch
Long/short
Duration
Fast/slow
Tempo
Loud/soft
Dynamics
Tone colour
Timbre
Thick/thin
Texture
The overall plan
Structure
SILENCE!

4. Can you identify each part of the kit?B D
1: Snare
2: Kick/bass drum
3: Hi-hat
4: Ride
5: Crash
6: Toms E F

5. Can you identify each part of the kit?
toms
crash
ride
Hi-hat
snare
Kick/bass

6. What are the different families of instruments?

7. What are the different families of instruments?

8. Which family does this instrument belong to?
Why?

9. Which family does this instrument belong to?
The saxophone is a woodwind instrument – even though it is made of metal.
This is because it has a reed, just like a clarinet.

10. What type of instrument is the piano?

11. What type of instrument is the piano?
The piano is a percussion instrument, because the hammers hit the strings.

12. Basic music theory: rhythm and time signatures

13. Basic music theory: rhythm
Name
Symbol
How many beats?
2 quavers:

14. Basic music theory: rhythm
Name
Symbol
How many beats?
Crotchet 1
Minim 2
Semibreve 4
Quaver
½ each
Rest
2 quavers:

15. Basic music theory: pitch

16. Basic music theory: pitch
Every
Good
Boy
Deserves
Food
Every
Green
Bus
Drives
Fast
The notes in the spaces are easy to remember:

17. Basic music theory: pitch

18. Club dance: what were the differences between the styles?
Think about:
Tempo
Sounds/instruments used
Style of singing
Type of drum beats used

19. Club dance: what were the differences between the styles?
Tempo: Trip hop is slow, drum’n’bass fast, and house is medium tempo
Sounds/instruments used: Trip hop may include orchestral instruments. Otherwise expect lots of synthesised sounds. Drum’n’bass has lots of effects and processing.
Style of singing: House vocals tend to be soulful. The voice in drum’n’bass may be heavily processed. In trip hop the voice may sound melancholy.
Type of drum beats used: house uses a basic disco beat. Drum’n’bass beats are very complex.

20. Disco: features DRUM BEAT has three distinct parts:
Four on the floor: bass (kick) drum on every beat
Back beat: snare on beats 2 and 4
Syncopation (off the beat) on the hi-hat
THEN THERE ARE OTHER FEATURES
Hook: the catchy bit!
Bass line: with octave leaps
Countermelody: extra melody over the top of the main melody, often played by strings
DISCO STARTED IN THE 1970s

21. Disco: can you remember the features?
What are the parts of the drum beat?
What is the catchy bit called?
What characterises the bass line?
What name would you give to the extra tune played on top by violins?
Which decade did disco start in?

22. Minimalism: what do you know?

23. Minimalism
An American style, starting in the 1960s, based on repeating and slowly changing patterns
Changing a pattern one note at a time
Terry Riley
Philip Glass
Steve Reich
Chords gradually fading in and out
In C
Electric Counterpoint
Clapping Music
Patterns of different lengths played at the same time
Filling the gaps in a pattern one note at a time