the 6 concepts.... (1 Viewer)

[django_]

isnt it a circle of fifths? oh well i guess its the same thing huh....

http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/article.php?do=viewattachment&attachmentid=2

its a way of remembering how many sharps or flats in a key or something... cant really remember lol but yeh. hope that helps.

 

[timrie6]

ooohhh yeah i know that. how would we use that in the exaM though

 

[trumpet geek]

yeah u just gota be able to like identify them. But you always have to read the question carefully - often they tell you to Identify and Describe a particualr technique from one of the concepts... look at how many marks the questions worth and then try to answer them clearly in dot points dont bother writing a full on essay for each question cos you wont have time to. With those ground bass, circle of 5ths, etc. they might give us a score attachment and ask us to identify them in the score and talk about it... Heres an acronym that our music teacher taught us in yer 11 -

Dirty (duration)
Timmy (texture)
Tells (tone colour/performing media)
Pornographic (pitch)
Stories (structure)
Downstairs (dynamics)

 

[timrie6]

I don't think they'd attach a score- have they ever done that before in a music exam?

 

[Crikket]

your teacher taught you that?!
lol!
it's more interesting than ours:
Please Don't Destroy The Teacher's Staffroom

 

[Crikket]

not for music 1, i doubt it
but it'd be so much easier if they did!

 

[olay]

?? guys, what's heterophony????

 

[Lexi]

OMG! You guys all use different terminology for the concepts. The one's I know are

• Duration
• Pitch
• Dynamic and Expressive Techniques
• Texture
• Tone Colour
• Structure

They are the only 6 concepts that Music 1's will be asked, you don't need to know any of the others.

And Melody, Harmony, Style, Performing Media (and there's more, I just don't remember them) are the old terms, and since they've changed the syllabus, aren't used.
Hope that helps!

 

[trumpet geek]

?? guys, what's heterophony????

heterophony is a kind of texture...

monophonic - one melody
homophonic - melody and accompaniment
polyphonic - 2 or more melodic lines of equal importance playing simultaneosly
micropolyphonic - bits and pieces of many different sounds that overall create a texture eg. when you stand in the middle of the playground you hear heaps of people talking but when you dont focus on a particular conversation and listen to the overall sounds that you hear its kind of a blur
heterophony - i think its like when in jazz when one person improvises and then another person improvises on top so like 2 people are weaving in and out of a melody or something... im not quite sure so i must check on that one...

 

[trumpet geek]

I don't think they'd attach a score- have they ever done that before in a music exam?

yeah for music 2 they normally give you 3 score attachments and then they play the excerpt on the Cd and you have to answer questions based on those excerpts

 

[timrie6]

righto well I'm doing music 1

 

[steph_eff]

have a look at this site it's pretty good!

http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/music/musicology/music2/2583/aural1.htm

 

[gen4]

awsome

Good find!!! thanku .

 

[trumpet geek]

have a look at this site it's pretty good!

http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/music/musicology/music2/2583/aural1.htm

erm... are u steph eff...the violin chick?

 

[steph_eff]

yes, yes i am
hey joe

 

[starbaaa]

hmm... the 6 concepts... my teacher calls them the mystical magical six. every time i hear that, i want to throw up. how incredibly gay is it?? stupidest thing i have ever heard in my whole entire life. and she insists on calling them that. repeatedly. annoys me no end. but then most of the things she says are stupid. like this: we were looking at 'feed the birds', like from Mary Poppins, and the lyrics are 'tuppence a bag'. "Does anybody know what tuppence is?" "Yes. Two pence" "you mean 2 cents" "no, 2 pence" "yes, 2 pennies" "no, 2 pence" "yes, 2 cents" and so on and so forth, follow? so incredibly STUPID!! I have another funny story (much funny) but I'll save that for another time....

 

[tash]

hey all i finished last year and have put my old music aural notes on the boredofstudies notes section and i was very proud of them (they were originally very colourful ) and were pretty helpful for me, so hopefully they'll help you too. and if you ever need any help i'm happy to, just PM me. i loved aural, it was bril and i got good marks in it. and i'm doing music as my arts major at uni, so there's my qualifications saying that i think i know what i'm talking about! but yeah good luck all music is fabo!

 

[ujuphleg]

*bump* .....

 

[saxyT]

hiii
im really stressed about music cos we have already had 4 teachers this yr cos they keep leaving, getting fired (for very dodgy reasons) or just simply disappearing off the face of the earth ...
in the pretrials, the top mark for music in my class was 63%.... wtf...
and the exam was on the 6 concepts of music but i just DONT get how to listen to a piece of music and then write about pitch, structure, dynamics and expressive techniques, and bla bla all the other 6topics... can somebody please help

okay well ive been blessed with a very dedicated teacher who puts endless amount of hours in, and she gave us these sheets that really br8 it down
Heres a short overview
When analysisng a piece uses the 6 concepts
Duration
talk about tempo, rhythms, beat, pulse, metre, is there an anacrusis, multimetre ,cross rhythms, ostinatos, free rhythm, syncopation, backbeat, accents, rubato
Pitch is broken up into 3
Melody
phrases symetrical? asymetrical? motif, fragment, range, interval, contour, steps/leaps, imitation, repitition, ostinato, sequence
Harmony
chordal progression, alberti bass, tone cluster, cadences, primary chords, pedal notes? chromatic
Tonality
key, drone?, modes, raga, modulation, scales-maj, min, chromatic, blues, pentatonic wholetone, consonance, dissonance, tonal, atonal
Texture
thin/thick
mono/homo/poly phonic, unison, imitation, doubling, call n response
Tone colour
pitch, soundwaves, aerophones, chordophones, membraphones, idiophones, range, register
Dynamics and ET
pp-ff including sF, crescendos, diminuendos, subito, legato, staccato, accent, vibrato, tremelo, tenuto, gliss, bend, scat ,falsetto, etc
Structure
intro, form, binary, ternary, rondo , theme and variaitions, strophic, coda, outro, 12 BAR BLUES, verse/chorus, bridge

theres a brief over view...if u can remember some from each concept then just yab on about how the piece uses them etc, how the composer has used them to create a theme or mood or just simply talk about what each are in the piece.
Some good words are, variety, unity and contrast
Hope this helps

 

[goliwog]

what kind of person would start drawing that stuff in their exam? besides the very STUPID

Look at the standard packages I spotted a horse on one sample !