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Music Vocabulary

Music Vocabulary 

EYFS

Year 1/2

Year 3/4

Year 5/6

  • action
  • beat
  • clap
  • listen
  • instrument
  • join in
  • loud
  • melodic shape
  • melody
  • pulse
  • quiet
  • rhythm
  • scratchy
  • sing
  • smooth
  • sound
  • speed
  • tempo
  • texture
  • beat
  • chant
  • clap
  • click
  • compose
  • dimensions
  • duration
  • emotion
  • end
  • fast
  • high
  • humming
  • instrument
  • introduction
  • listen
  • long
  • loud
  • low
  • melody
  • middle
  • pattern
  • percussion
  • perform
  • pitch
  • pulse
  • repetition
  • review
  • rhythm
  • score
  • short
  • sing
  • soft
  • song
  • sound
  • steady
  • symbol
  • tempo
  • texture
  • timbre
  • whisper
  • whistle
  • bars
  • beat
  • canon
  • chorus
  • composition
  • conductor
  • contrast
  • crotchet
  • dynamics
  • expression
  • higher
  • improvisation
  • instruments
  • layers
  • leaps
  • lower
  • louder
  • melody
  • metre
  • minim
  • notes
  • orchestra
  • ostinato
  • percussion
  • performance
  • play
  • pulse
  • quaver
  • quieter
  • read
  • repeated notes/ signs
  • rhythm
  • rounds
  • sounds
  • soundscape
  • staff notation
  • stave
  • steps
  • structures
  • syncopated
  • (un)tuned
  • verse
  • vocal
  • voice
  • 2, 3 and 4 metre
  • 5 notes
  • acapella
  • accuracy
  • awareness
  • balance
  • beat
  • blues
  • canon
  • choir
  • chords
  • classical
  • coda
  • combinations
  • compare
  • composition
  • conductor
  • context, contrast
  • control
  • drone
  • dynamics
  • ensemble
  • expression
  • genres
  • graphic score
  • group
  • harmony
  • improvise
  • independent
  • instrument
  • jazz
  • leaps
  • major scale pattern
  • melody
  • notes
  • orchestra
  • ostinato
  • performance
  • pitch
  • purpose
  • quaver
  • repeated note
  • rhythm
  • rondo
  • samba
  • semibreve
  • semiquaver
  • sing
  • sounds/ soundscape
  • staff notation
  • stave
  • steps
  • styles
  • symbols
  • syncopated
  • tempi/o
  • theme
  • vocal
  • variations