Music A-Level
Extended techniques
What Extended techniques means in Music A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Extended techniques
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Unusual playing methods that vastly expand the orchestral palette, such as flutter tonguing for wind instruments or col legno and sul ponticello for strings.
Topics that use Extended techniques
- Area of study 7: Art music since 1910 - Musical elements (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- 20th-century chord structures
- 20th-century compositional techniques
- 20th-century rhythmic innovation
- A cappella
- Additive and subtractive processes
- Alternatives to functional tonality
- Atonality
- Atonality and tonality
Using Extended techniques in the exam
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