Music GCSE
Section boundaries and cadences
What Section boundaries and cadences means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Section boundaries and cadences
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The places where one section begins and ends, located by referring to audible features such as cadences, changes of texture, new melodic material or returns of earlier material.
Topics that use Section boundaries and cadences
- Component 3: Appraising - Knowledge and understanding (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Baroque period characteristics
- Listening evidence
- Musical elements vocabulary
- Overall form and named structures
- Period recognition
- Precise versus vague language
- Relating structure to audible features
- Repetition, contrast and variation
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