Question

1. Pitch (leap, step octave, treble, bass, deep, high, low, range)
2. Duration/Rhythm (even, uneven, long, short, pulse, jumpy, syncopated, regular, repetitive)
3. Tempo or Pace (slow, fast, quick, sluggish, moderate, speeds up, slows down)
4. Timbre – the tone quality or instrumentation. (All instruments studied last term, bright, dull, brilliant, hollow, string, wood, metal, reed, contrast, foreground, background)
5. Dynamics/volume (Very, extremely, loud, soft, gets louder/softer, crescendo, decrescendo)
6. Texture – how much is going on at once ( tune, melody, accompaniment, backing, parts, broken chords, idesa, arpeggios, independent, ostinato, imitation, drone)
7. Silence – rests (beats, bars, complete, long, short)
8. Structure – the plan of the music (introduction, repeat, phrase, return, variation, contract, section, verse, chorus, bridge, ABA, coda)
9. Mood – does the music create an atmosphere? (calm, busy, eerie, gentle, violent, stormy, threatening, peaceful, romantic, sentimental)
10. Anything else and the context of the song. Where has this genre developed from?

Answer 1

Tonality/modality is another element of the song which is the tone or the key centre of the song. As- major , minor, modal, atonal. It is the arrangement of the pitches and chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations.

The term tonalite was first used in 1810 by Alexandre choron. Although fetis used it as a general term for a system of musical organization. Today the term is most often used to refer major/minor tonality, the system of musical organization of the common practical period.