Music GCSE
Technique and timbre
What Technique and timbre means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Technique and timbre
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The means by which the same instrument can change its tone colour, such as muted strings, pizzicato, or a singer switching between chest and head voice.
Topics that use Technique and timbre
- 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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