Music A-Level
Musical pacing and timing
What Musical pacing and timing means in Music A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Musical pacing and timing
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How the music develops in tandem with the visual pacing, and how the cue concludes, whether it fades out, ends abruptly on a cut, or resolves into the next scene.
Topics that use Musical pacing and timing
- Area of study 3: Music for media - Musical elements (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- 9th, 11th, and 13th chords
- Action and drive
- added 6th
- Character development
- Chord extensions
- Chord nomenclature
- Cross-cultural orchestration
- Cross-rhythm
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