Kategorier: Alle - harmony - dynamics - texture - notation

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Music Elements

The fundamental components of music include various elements that contribute to its overall structure and expression. Musical texture is categorized into homophonic, monophonic, and polyphonic forms, each defining how melodies and harmonies interact.

Music Elements

Music Elements

Musical Style

A characteristic way of treating the various music elements

Musical Form

Three Part Form

A composition divided into three sections

A(statement) B (departure) A(return)

i.e. A, B, A, A, B, A, A, B, A

Two Part Form

A composition divided into two large sections

A(statment) B(counterstatement)

i.e. A, B, A, B, A, B

Musical Texture

Homophonic

One main Meolody followed by chords

Polyphonic

Two or More melodies playing at the same time

Monophonic

Just one Sound

Key

Modulation

A change of one key to another

Chromatic Scale

All 12 tones of an Octave

Key Signature

Sharp and flat signs following the clef at the beginning of the staff

Minor Scale

Same as the major only that there is a half step between the second and third tones

Major Scale

Involves half steps and whole steps and involves only the white keys of a piano

Harmony

Triad

Consist of three different tones

Consonance and Dissonance

Consonance is a stable tone

Dissonance is an unstable tone

Sound

Vibration of an Object

Tone Color

The quality that distingushes the property of sound

Dynamics

Loudness or Softness in music

Pitch

Highness or Lowness in a sound

Performing Media

Musical Instruments

Types of intruments; String, Woodwind, Brass, Percussion, Keyboard, and Electronic

Classification of voices

Women Men

Soprano Tenor

Mezzo-Soprano Baritone

Alto Bass

Rhythm

Tempo

Speed of the beat

Accent

How a note played is Stressed or not stressed

Meter

Organization of beats into regular groups

Beat

Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units

Music Notation

Score

Shows entire music for each instrument

Grand Staff

Combination of Treble and Bass Clefs

Names of Pitches

A, B, C, D, E, F, G plus can have sharp or flat sign

Notating Pitch

Use notes on a staff

Melody

Cadences

The resting place at the end of the phrase

Sequences

Repetition of a melodic pattern at higher or lower pitches

Phrases

Shorter parts of Melodies

Intervals

How melody moves using steps for smaller, or leaps for larger movements.