DRAMATICS: Ingredients of Music (Junior Cert Music): Revision Notes
📚 Revision Notes
DRAMATICS: Ingredients of Music
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In Junior Cycle Music, you will build your musical vocabulary by learning how to use symbols to represent sound. You will also explore how music can express different emotions and moods. By listening, experimenting, and creating, you will learn how to shape sound into short musical ideas called motifs.
| Key Ingredient | Definition | Letter |
|---|---|---|
| DYNAMICS | How loud or soft the music is | D |
| RHYTHM | How long or short the note is | R |
| ACCOMPANIMENT | The rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody | A |
| METRE MELODY | Numbers of beats in a bar High and low pitches shaped in a particular way | M |
| ARTICULATION | How to play a specific note or chord | A |
| TEMPO TEXTURE TONALITY | How fast or slow the music is played Describes the effect when melodies and/or chords are layered together The scale the music is based on | T |
| INSTRUMENTS | Any device that produces a musical sound Sonority is the quality or sound or the timbre (colour) of an instrument | I |
| CHORD CADENCE | Two or more notes sounding together A two-chord progression at the end of a phrase that makes the music sound finished or unfinished | C |
| STRUCTURE STYLE | The overall plan of a piece of music The characteristic features of a particular historical period, genre, performer or composer | S |