Music GCSE
Repetition, contrast and return
What Repetition, contrast and return means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Repetition, contrast and return
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
What a listener hears coming back unchanged, what changes, and what returns, used to match the pattern to a structure label.
Topics that use Repetition, contrast and return
- Component 3: Appraising - Musical elements (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Basic modulation and its signals
- Cadence types and their effect
- Dotted rhythms
- Dynamic markings
- Harmonic chord progressions
- Justifying a structure from listening evidence
- Major and minor tonality
- Melodic contour and devices
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