Page 5 - Music Mats

Space UKS2

Vocabulary Know that Know what

Sampling Recording a portion of Sampled sounds form the basis of hip hop music. Moods music evokes.
an existing piece of
Electronic music and using it in Judith Weir was the first woman master of the Queen’s Techniques composers use to
another piece. music. portray elements of space
Reverb such as weightlessness, vast
Reverse Sounds that have been Delia Derbyshire created the sound effects for the first Dr amounts of space & the
Chromatic processed and played Who theme and she was a pioneer of electronic music. unknown.
back through a
Diatonic speaker system. Hans Zimmer wrote film music for films such as Musical dimensions are
Chord Madagascar, Lion King and Blue Planet. manipulated to create
Tone cluster Electronically effects.
Dissonant produced echo effect. Know how
Loop Whether chords are
Playing sounds To change sounds to create effects by adding reverb, chromatic or diatonic.
backwards echo or reversing sounds using software such as
electronically. audacity. Musical form to use to
depict intentions.
Using semitones the To sample sounds and use them effectively.
smallest distance
between notes on a To play tone clusters.
keyboard.
To use different sound sources to create effects.
Using notes from a
major or minor scale. To record and use a microphone effectively using
different methods.
One or more notes
played at the same To use the voice to create sound effects controlling
time. pitch dynamics and duration.

Three adjacent notes Composers and their music
played together using
the chromatic scale. Judith Weir - Airs from a distant planet Penderecki - Anaklasis
Vangelis - Mare Tranquillitatis Bowie - Space Oddity
Sounds clashing or Holst- Planets suite B &L Baron - Soundtrack for Forbidden
not harmonic. Erik Satie - Gnossienne No 3 planet
Hans Zimmer - Earth Delia Derbyshire - Dr Who theme
Repeated section of
recorded sound.

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