Texture
What Texture means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Solo voice with plucked string accompaniment, the bass providing the rhythmic and harmonic foundation.
The fuller musical whole within which a melody is most frequently an individual strand or part.
Describes how musical lines combine, such as heterophonic, homophonic or polyphonic.
How musical lines, or parts, fit together at any moment.
Topics that use Texture
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Organisation of pitch (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Sonority and texture (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Area of Study 4: Fusions (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Component 3: Appraising - Musical elements (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Sonority
- Tempo
- 12-bar blues
- Accompaniment and harmony
- Aural identification
- Basic modulation and its signals
- Bass line
- Basso continuo
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