MUSIC 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Duple Coachbuilders
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Note: quizzes are for your practice only at your own pace. Prof won"t see the grades, and they are not part of the grading for this class. Terms and concepts about sound: time: rhythm, beat, and meter, rhythm: a sequence of events in musical time. Whatever happens in real time in the foreground, particularly against the background (meter: beat/pulse: regular unit of musical time, like the ticking of a clock or a heartbeat. Accent: beats that are stronger: tempo: speed of the beat, meter: grouping of beats, most often in twos, threes, or fours. Wed. sept. 10, 2014: melodies can have regular or irregular rhythm (note values, a melody can be built from phrases of (ir)regular length. Regular-length phrases are common in familiar songs such as hymns, folk songs, and national anthems, and are like pairs of poetic lines. A handful of notes from the piece that can be transformed.
