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Year 7 Revision 01

Revise KS3 Year 7 Music essentials, from rhythm and pitch to dynamics and structure. This quiz helps you practise key terms and listening skills for class.

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Fascinating Fact:

Articulation is how notes are played, like staccato for short notes or legato for smooth notes.

In KS3 Music Year 7, revision is about building confidence with the building blocks of music. You practise reading and describing music using musical vocabulary, recognising patterns like pulse and metre, and spotting how composers create mood using elements such as tempo, dynamics, texture, and structure.

Key Terms

Tempo: How fast or slow the music is, often measured in beats per minute.
Dynamics: How loud or quiet the music is, including changes like getting louder or softer.
Texture: How many layers of sound there are, for example a single melody or several parts played together.

Frequently Asked Questions (Click to see answers)

What should I revise for KS3 Music Year 7?

For KS3 Music Year 7, revise the elements of music, basic notation, rhythm and metre, simple structures like verse and chorus, and how tempo and dynamics change the mood.

What are the elements of music in KS3?

In KS3, the elements of music usually include pitch, duration or rhythm, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure, and sometimes silence. These help you describe what you hear.

How do time signatures work in Year 7 music?

A time signature shows how beats are organised in each bar. The top number tells you how many beats are in a bar, and the bottom number shows the note value for one beat.

Try These Related Quizzes

1 .

What is the purpose of musical cliché in film?

To generate dramatic effect

To heighten the sense of excitement

To bring out emotion or warn the audience of danger

All of the above

The same can be said for game music, tv scores etc.

2 .

What music is most likely to feature verse and chorus?

Concerto

Film scores

Hymns

Symphony

Also common in musicals and vocal rock tracks

3 .

What does MIDI stand for?

Multi Instrument Digital Interface

Multi Instrument Dynamic Indication

Multitrack Inaugaral Dynamic Input

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

Just one MIDI link can carry 16 channels of information

4 .

What is a note cluster?

A type of cereal musicians have for breakfast!

A played group of notes which are very close together

A really fast passage of music

All of the above

You can hear this in a lot of chordal piano/organ music

5 .

Pitch is .......

a way of describing how high or low a note sounds

indicative of speed

representative of dynamic volume

None of the above

Notes on a piece of music indicate the pitch to play as well as how long to play the note for

6 .

What is a tempo?

The key signature

Pace or general speed of a composition

The time signature

None of the above

Examples: andante, allegro, largo etc.

7 .

What motif structure best defines binary form?

AB (often repeated - AABB)

ABA

ABCDA

One section repeated several times

Binary form was most popular during the Baroque period (c1600-1750)

8 .

What best describes a 'round'?

A circular seating layout for performers of modern music

An alternative description for a movement in a concerto

The way acoustics travel around the building/hall

Where many voices sing a repeated tune at different times

Many nursery rhyme songs are arranged as a round

9 .

Musical cycles often feature repeated .......

rhythms

melodies

harmonies

All of the above

They can repeat one, or all, of the above

10 .

'Tala' corresponds to what in western music?

Dynamics

Composition and Composer's titles on sheet music

Metre

Composer's dedication

Tala illustrates rhythmic patterns in Indian music

You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Music

Author: Thomas Daish (Keyboard & Woodwind Specialist, Music Teacher & Quiz Writer)

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