Higher UM April Revision 30: 5 days to Go! - VOCAL CONCEPTS / DYNAMICS / CONCERTO GROSSO

There are 5 days to go until the Higher Understanding Music paper on Friday 5th May.

a) Here are some concepts to do with voices.

              

Definitions here.

b) dynamics - volume. Make sure you know these.

c) concerto grosso - an instrumental composition from the Baroque era in which the full orchestra (called ripieno) contrasts with a smaller group of instruments (called concertino). 

In the youtube excerpt above, you can see that the concertino group is the small group of soloists (recorder, oboe, violin, trumpet) standing in front of the larger ripieno. 

This comes up a lot in Higher papers. Please take a few minutes to be clear about concerto grosso, ripieno and concertino.