Music GCSE
Changes of sonority
What Changes of sonority means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Changes of sonority
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Alterations within a passage, such as a muted trumpet, a change from arco to pizzicato, or a switch from strings to woodwind.
Topics that use Changes of sonority
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Sonority and texture (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Accompaniment and harmony
- Basso continuo
- Figured bass realisation
- Homophonic
- Imitation and contrapuntal writing
- Listening and identification
- Monophonic
- Monophonic, homophonic and polyphonic textures
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