ANACRUSIS (Melody) - The upbeat before the main beat starts, CONJUNCT (Melody) - Moving by step, DISJUNCT (Melody) - Moving by leaps / jumps, ARPEGGIO (Melody) - Broken chord where the notes are individually sounded, SCALIC (Melody) - Ascending / descending within a scale, RANGE (Melody) - The distance between the highest and lowest note e.g. 5th, octave, SEQUENCE (Melody) - Where a passage of music is repeated higher or lower, IMITATION (Melody) - Repetition of a music in another part, REPETITION (Melody) - A repeated section of Music, CONTRAST (Melody) - Differences between parts and sections, LEITMOTIF (Melody) - A motif that represents a person, place or character. , MOTIF (Melody) - A short musical idea, OCTAVE (Melody) - 8 notes apart, MAJOR 2ND (Melody) - 2 notes apart, MAJOR 3RD (Melody) - 3 notes apart, MAJOR 7TH (Melody) - 7 notes apart, SEMITONE (Melody) - The closest distance from one note until the next e.g. C - C#, CHROMATIC (Melody) - Moving ascending or descending using semitones, PENTATONIC (Melody) - A scale or melody centred around 5 notes (used in Toto: Africa, BLUES NOTES (Melody) - Flattened 3rd or 7th notes to create dissonance (used in Jazz and Blues), TRILL (Melody) - Rapidly moving from one note to another, FANFARE (Melody) - A short musical theme usually played on Trumpets / Brass, BINARY (Structure) - A - B (2 sections), TERNARY (Structure) - A -B - A , RONDO (Structure) - A- B- A- C- A- D- A- E- (etc), THEME & VARIATIONS (Structure) - One main theme and then it is varied (e.g. might be faster / slower / more notes added / in a minor key etc), STROPHIC (Structure) - A A A A (verse, verse, verse, verse), CALL & RESPONSE (Structure) - One part plays - another responds, OSTINATO (Structure & Melody) - Short repeating melody or rhythm, IMPROVISATION (Structure & Melody) - Making music up on the spot, FILL (Structure) - Used to fill one part to another e.g. drum fill used in Africa Toto, MIDDLE 8 (Structure) - 8 bars of music in the middle of a piece / similar to a bridge, RIFF (Structure & Melody) - Short repeating melody used in pop music,

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