VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The New Grove Dictionary Of Music And Musicians, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy
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Form the constructive or organizing element in music. Elements that help us recognize form: repetition, melodies, motives, textures, harmonic structures, closure, use of consonance and dissonance, cadence, melodic descent. Consonance/dissonance and their relationship with melodic or tonal completion. Consonance an interval (two notes) that sounds resolved and stable. Dissonance an interval that sounds unresolved and unstable. Antecedent, consequent two musical phrases, the second of which is a concluding response to or resolution of the first. Closure a sense of relative musical stability or finality. Harmony the relationship of pitches as they sound simultaneously. Section a group of phrases which are related in the listener"s mind by proximity or musical content. Motive a short fragment of melody or rhythm used in constructing a long section of music. Melody a succession of pitches having a coherence similar to that found in a sentence in language. Tonality the organization of music around a central pitch, and the scale built on that pitch.
