Music GCSE
Sonority and texture
What Sonority and texture means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Sonority and texture
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The background supports the principal part through harmony, texture, dynamics and rhythm, and the background shapes harmony, pulse and mood.
Topics that use Sonority and texture
- 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
- Listening and identification
- Monophonic
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