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Learn about higher concepts: keys, scales, modes and ornaments.

Learn about higher concepts relating to intervals, chords and cadences.

Learn about higher concepts relating to rhythm and tempo.

Learn about higher concepts relating to texture, structure and form.

Learn about the higher concepts relating to timbre.

Find out more about chamber music - pieces composed to be played in someone's home rather than in a church or theatre.

Find out more about impressionist music - introduced in late 19th Century France and focused was on creating shifting mood and atmosphere.

Find out more about jazz funk - a style of music that grew out of jazz, but brings in elements of soul music and rhythm and blues.

Find out more about lied (plural lieder) - a song performed in German by a solo singer with piano accompaniment.

Find out more about mass - the setting of a church service (or mass) to music.

Find out more about musique concrète - a style of experimental music that is composed using recorded sounds.

Find out more about oratorio - a large scale work for voices and instruments.

Find out more about plainchant - a style of medieval vocal music.

Find out more about recitative - a type of singing that is closer to speech than song

Find out more about sonata - a piece of instrumental music, usually for a solo instrument, or a small group

Find out more about soul music - a style of African American music that developed from rhythm and blues in the USA in the 1950s and 60s.

Find out more about string quartet - a musical group made up of two violins, one viola and one cello.