Checklist for IGCSE Cambridge Revision - Christopher Hoddinott

General Listening Skills

Intervals recognising intervals both aurally and from notation
Understanding Key Signatures
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Understanding Metre
Understanding Melody
Understanding Rhythm
Understanding Harmony
Understanding Western Instruments
Understanding Voices SATB
Understanding Structure
Understanding Texture
Music in the Classical Period
Classical Musical Instruments
Piano
Development of woodwind section
Classical Composers
Mozart
Haydn
Beethoven (Early)
Symphony
1st Movement Allegro
2nd Movement Adagio (slow)
3rd Movement Minuet and Trio (3/4 time)
4th Movement Allegro usually in Rondo
String Quartet

Chamber Music
Sacred Music
Recognising scale/key Major or Minor
Recognising Metre 2 or 4 beats to bar.
Rondo Structure
Sonata Form
Exposition
development
recapitulation
Concerto
Double exposition
Candenza (virtuso passage)
Ternary Structure
Minuet and Trio
Themes and Variations
Texture
Cadences
Crescendo/Diminuedo
sforzando
Alberti Bass
Legato (smooth)
Staccato (Short and spiky)
Music in the Romantic Period
Romantic Orchestra/Compare with Classical Orchestra
Romantic Composers
Beethoven (Late)
Chopin
Mendelssohn
Liszt
Johan Strauss
Tchaikovsky
Dvorak
Understanding chromaticism and dissonance
Lyrical Melodies
Introduction of Brass section into the orchestra
Programme Music
Piano Music (etudes, nocturnes)
German Lied
Opera
Wagner
Bizet
Verdi
Nationalist Composers
Jean Sibelius
Leitmotif
Baroque Music
Baroque Orchestra
Harpsichord
Baroque Composers
Bach
Handel
Vivaldi
Purcell
Predominantly Homophonic Texture
Monody
Basso Continuo
Figured Bass (notation)
One mood beginning to end
Terraced Dynamics
Binary form (AB)
Ternary (ABA da capo aria)
Rondo (ABACA)
Ritornello (Four seasons)
Tutti (all together)
Fugue
Oratorios (large scale sacred music)
Cantatas (mini Oratorio)
trio sonato
Sonata de camera (Home)
Sonata la chiesa (Church)
Baroque dances
Allemande 4/4 moderate tempo
Courante 3/2/or 6/4 lively tempo
Sarabande 3/4 time accent on second beat fairly slow
Gigue (Jig) A fast time 6/8
Concerto Grosso
Concertino
Twentieth Century Music
20th Century Composers
Claude Debussy
Prokofiev
Gustav Holst
Exploration of new timbres
Extended uses of rhythm (cross rhythm, polyrhythms, odd time signatures, changes in metre)
Atonality (harmony no longer subject to tonal relationships)
Exploration in disjunct melodies
Expressionism
Schoenberg
Whole tone scale
Serialism
Neo - Classicism
Minimalism
Steve Reich
Wagner Music Dramas
Jazz
George Gershwin
Scott Joplin
Swing Rhythms
Blues Scale
12 Bar blues
Stride Bass
Accents
Syncopation
World Music
India
Raga (indian classical music)
Tala
Texture -Melody and Drone
Pitch bending and Ornaments
Sitar
Bansuri
Tabla
Tambura
Sarod
Sarangi
Alap - The notes of the raga scale introduced with no pulse
Jor - Regular pulse added to the Alap
Gat - Tabla enters
Jhalla - Fast increase in Tempo to finish
China
Pentatonic Scales
Heterophonic textures
Pitch bending
Ornamentation
Instruments
Erhu
Ch’in
Dizi
Guzheng
Chinese Opera
Japan
Heterophonic textures
Pentatonic Scales
Yo Scale D-F-G-A-C
In Scale D Eb G A Bb D
Mine - Solo folk songs
Biwa Hoshi - Narrative Song
Instruments
Shakuhachi
Taiko
Koto
Sho
Indonesia (Gamelan)
Heterophonic texture
Slendro scale C D F G A
Pelog scale D Eb F G# A Bb C
Instruments
Saron
Bonang
Gongs
Latin America
Argentina
Tango
Syncopation
Homophonic texture
Instruments
Concertina/Accordion/Bandoneon
Piano
Violin
The Andes (Boliva, Columbia, Peru, Chile)
Hocket
Instruments
Panpipes
Spanish guitar
Drums
Brazil
Samba
Polyrhythms
Instruments
Surdo
Caixa
Cuica
Tamborims
Mexico
Mariachi
Instruments
guitarron
vihuela
Arabian Music
Syncopation
Polyrhythm
Ostinato
Instruments
Oud/Ud
Ney
African Music
Syncopation
Call and Response
Melisima
Polyrhythm
Ostinato
Instruments
Djembe
Talking Drum
Marimba
Kora
World Prescribed Focus
African Music
Arabian Music
Set works
Mendelssohn - A midsummers night’s dream, Overture Op.21
Rodrigo - Concierto Aranjuez