Revision notes.

Try this with Music

1. Close your notes and write the main idea in two sentences from memory.
2. Reopen the source and correct the first mistake or omission you find.
3. Add one example and one question to test whether you can apply the idea.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Duration: beat, metre, tempo, rhythm, accent and syncopation
• Melody: contour, range, register, motif and melodic patterns
• Harmony and tonality: progressions, cadences, dissonance, keys, modes and modulation
• Texture and timbre: density, voicing, layering, instrumentation and sound manipulation
• Expressive devices and structure: dynamics, articulation, contrast and form
• Compositional devices: accompaniment, development, theme, transition, unity and variation
• Innovations in pitch: extended harmony, chromaticism, atonality and new scale forms
• Innovations in duration and structure: polyrhythm, mixed metre, looping, phasing and additive form
• Innovations in timbre and technology: prepared and extended techniques, electronics, sampling and layering
• Innovation in context: how new practices in jazz, art, popular and Australian music create new meaning
• Narrative I: conveying setting in time and place
• Narrative II: characterisation, leitmotif and thematic transformation
• Narrative III: supporting drama and action — building and releasing tension
• Narrative IV: establishing and changing mood and atmosphere, and text setting
• Narrative genres: film, television and game music, musical theatre, opera, program music and art song
• Decoding the question: the concept, the contextual information and choosing your option
• Key moments: working inside bars and time codes, and hearing what the score does not show
• Deconstructing a key moment: breadth, depth and connecting elements to find meaning
• Evaluating and justifying: insightful judgments and credible, referenced examples
• Planning and writing the analytical essay in 20 + 120 minutes