Music GCSE
Repeated pitch
What Repeated pitch means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Repeated pitch
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Use of the same pitch repeatedly in a melodic part, so the same note is sounded again and again rather than moving up or down.
Topics that use Repeated pitch
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Organisation of pitch (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- 12-bar blues
- Aural identification
- Bass line
- Broken chord
- Chord sequences
- Conjunct
- Decoration versus structural change
- Disjunct
Using Repeated pitch in the exam
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