Music GCSE
Listening and identification
What Listening and identification means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Listening and identification
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
When you listen, identify which part is foregrounded and which parts are subordinate, then describe how the background supports the principal part.
Topics that use Listening and identification
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Sonority and texture (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Accompaniment and harmony
- Basso continuo
- Changes of sonority
- Figured bass realisation
- Homophonic
- Imitation and contrapuntal writing
- Monophonic
- Monophonic, homophonic and polyphonic textures
Using Listening and identification in the exam
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