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  • Understanding Music

    • Melody and harmony: keys, scales, modes and ornaments

      Learn about higher concepts: keys, scales, modes and ornaments.

    • Rhythm and tempo

      Learn about higher concepts relating to rhythm and tempo.

    • Texture, structure and form

      Learn about higher concepts relating to texture, structure and form.

    • Timbre

      Learn about the higher concepts relating to timbre.

    • Chamber music

      Find out more about chamber music - pieces composed to be played in someone's home rather than in a church or theatre.

    • Impressionist

      Find out more about impressionist music - introduced in late 19th Century France and focused was on creating shifting mood and atmosphere.

    • Jazz funk

      Find out more about jazz funk - a style of music that grew out of jazz, but brings in elements of soul music and rhythm and blues.

    • Lied and lieder

      Find out more about lied (plural lieder) - a song performed in German by a solo singer with piano accompaniment.

    • Mass

      Find out more about mass - the setting of a church service (or mass) to music.

    • Musique concr猫te

      Find out more about musique concr猫te - a style of experimental music that is composed using recorded sounds.

    • Oratorio

      Find out more about oratorio - a large scale work for voices and instruments.

    • Plainchant

      Find out more about plainchant - a style of medieval vocal music.

    • Recitative

      Find out more about recitative - a type of singing that is closer to speech than song

    • Sonata

      Find out more about sonata - a piece of instrumental music, usually for a solo instrument, or a small group

    • Soul

      Find out more about soul music - a style of African American music that developed from rhythm and blues in the USA in the 1950s and 60s.

    • String quartet

      Find out more about string quartet - a musical group made up of two violins, one viola and one cello.