King Charles I School Knowledge Organiser
Music department autumn 1 - Year 7
Key Learning – Unit 1 – Programme Music
Programme music is music that tells a story and sometimes suggests visual images. The descriptive idea
or story-line is known as the programme.
Musical motifs or themes are used to represent a certain character, mood or emotion.
Sometimes composers give their compositions a programmatic title – an example of this is Camille SaintSaëns ‘The Carnival of the Animals’ which describes the sound of a number of different animals.
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Keyword
Orchestra
Definition
Forte -
A large group of instruments which includes the four families of
instruments: Strings, Woodwind, Brass and Percussion.
A theme is a recurring melody/ tune that always accompanies a
character in a story.
A piece of music made up of three sections – A B A.
The speed of the music.
The volume of the music.
Describes a loud dynamic.
Piano -
Describes a quiet dynamic.
Crescendo -
When the music gradually gets louder.
Diminuendo -
When the music gradually gets quieter.
Theme
Ternary Form
Tempo
Dynamics