MUAR 392 Lecture Notes - Paul Anka, Bobby Rydell, Frankie Avalon
23 May 2012
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The way in which musical parameters (melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre) come together in a composition. Especially pertains to relationship between harmony and melody/melodies. Homorhythmic: multiple voices with same or very similar rhythms. Strophic/chorus form: simplest musical form: a single repeating musical section to which different lyrics are set at each repetition, so aaa, also modified strophic form in which pattern is somewhat modified in some or all repetitions: aaa. Through-composed form: form in which each verse is set to different music, so abcd (always changing, most common in genres in which text painting is highly valued: e. g. madrigal, very uncommon in popular music! Tonality: a systematic hierarchy of tones allowing for the creation, frustration and fulfillment of desire for music to move in certain ways. Most important: movement from i chord to v chord (in the key of c: c>g) resolving back to i. Listen to wake me up before you gogo by wham! (1984)
