Beat

“An even pulse, underlying all music”

Rhythm

“Everything to do with timing in music – whether sounds are long or short or how they are grouped together in patterns.

Tempo means speed.

Pitch

“The degree of highness and lowness of a note”

Melody

“A tune, a series of single notes of varying pitch”.

Harmony is a group of notes that play at the same time, except these notes are played behind, beneath, and around the melody. Harmony supports the melody and gives the music texture or mood. You can change how a piece of music sounds by changing only the harmony. The same melody will sound very different if you play it with one harmony or another.

Dynamics mean the loud's and softs in music - the volume switch.

• The way that sounds are combined.

• Monophonic - a single melody

• Homophonic - a melody with chords accompanying it.

• Polyphonic - many melodies at the same time

• The individual instruments and their unique sounds

• Divided into four orchestral families in the western system: Brass, Percussion, Strings and Woodwind.

In music we use the term "form" to describe the structure of the music. The main form used in pop music is a verse, chorus structure which is an example of Binary Form. Each section in music is given a letter name ie first section is called section A, second section is called section B, etc.