MUAR 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Duple Coachbuilders, The Technique, Symphonic Poem
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Pitch: the quality of highness or lowness of sound. Study sheet week 1: coming to terms with terms a sound-producing vibration that oscillates (beats) at a define and prescribe rate of speed. Contour: a picture/ overall shape of the melody. Harmony: refer to the simultaneous sounding of different pitches or chords. Chord: standard grouping of simultaneous pitches that work well in combination, groups are chords. Rhythm: refers to the general way music unfolds in time; actual arrangement of durations long and short notes- in a particular melody or some other musical passage. Refers to the particular arrangements of long and short notes in a musical passage; the aspect of music having to do with the duration of the notes in time. Meter: any recurring pattern of strong and weak beats; one, two three & one two. Duple form: the beats are grouped in twos (one two| one two) or in fours (one two three four| one two.