Music GCSE
Chord sequences
What Chord sequences means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Chord sequences
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
An ordered series of chords heard one after another, which in many styles is repeated as a loop that underpins a whole section or piece.
Topics that use Chord sequences
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Organisation of pitch (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- 12-bar blues
- Aural identification
- Bass line
- Broken chord
- Conjunct
- Decoration versus structural change
- Disjunct
- Elaboration of existing melodic material
Using Chord sequences in the exam
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