Musical Concepts Dictionary
Please remember that for National 5 you still need to know the concepts for National 3 and 4.
National 3 Concepts
BluesJazz Latin-American Musical Pop Rock Rock n Roll Scottish Ascending Chord Chord Change Descending Discord Improvisation Leap (Leaping) Question and Answer Repetition Sequence Step (Stepwise) Accent Accented Adagio Allegro Bar Beat/Pulse Drum Fill Faster March Off the Beat On the Beat Pause Reel Repetition Slower Waltz Accompanied Harmony Octave Ostinato Repetition Riff Round Solo Unaccompanied Unison Accordion Acoustic Guitar Bagpipes Blowing Bowing Choir Drum Kit Electric Guitar Fiddle Folk Group Legato Orchestra Organ Piano Plucking Scottish Dance Band Staccato Steel Band Striking (hitting) Strumming Voice |
National 4 Concepts
African Music Baroque Concert Mouth Music Opera Ragtime Rapping Reggae Romantic Scots Ballad Swing Arpeggio Broken Chord Change of Key Chord Progression Drone Major/Minor Tonality Octave Ornament Pedal Pentatonic Scale Scale Scat Singing Vamp Accelerando Anacrusis Andante A Tempo Compound Time Dotted Rhythms Jig Rallentando Scotch Snap Simple Time Strathspey Syncopation Cadenza Canon Imitation Middle 8 Ternary Form Theme and Variation Verse and Chorus Alto Backing Vocals Bass Bass Drum Bass Guitar Brass Band Cello Clarinet Cymbals Distortion Double Bass Flute Glockenspiel Guiro Harp Harpsichord Muted Panpipes Recorder Saxophone Snare Drum Soprano Tambourine Tenor Timpani Triangle Trombone Trumpet Violin Wind/Military Band Xylophone |
National 5 Concepts
Aria Bothy Ballad Celtic Rock Chorus Classical Gaelic Psalms Gospel Indian Minimalist Pibroch Symphony Waulking Song Atonal Atonal Music Chord Progression Chromatic Scale Cluster Chord Contrary Motion Countermelody Descant Glissando Grace Note Imperfect Cadence Inverted Pedal Melismatic Modulation Perfect Cadence Pitch Bend Semitone Syllabic Tone Trill Whole-Tone Scale Compound Time Cross-Rhythms Moderato Ritarando Rubato Alberti Bass Binary Form Coda Contrapuntal Episode Ground Bass Homophonic Polyphonic Rondo Strophic Walking Bass A Cappella Arco Baritone Bassoon Bodhrán Bongo Drums Castanets Clarsach Con Sordino Flutter Tonguing French Horn Hi-Hat Cymbals Mezzo-Soprano Oboe Piccolo Pizzicato Reverb Rolls Sitar Tabla Tuba Viola |