MUSC 171 Lecture 1: MUSC 171 - Week 1
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Learning objectives: music fundamentals, rhythm, beats, pulse, accents, backbeat, measures or bars, duration, meter, conducting patterns for 4/4 and 3/4, tempo, (cid:862) traight(cid:863) and (cid:862)shuffle(cid:863) 8ths, syncopation, pitch and dynamics, pitch/tone, dynamics, timbre, scales, chords, modulation. Beat- basic unit of musical time: beat = pulse, some beat more important than others= have heavier accents, vast majority of songs possess 4 beats - accenting pattern. Biggest accent usually on the first beat, while the third has a significantly smaller one. Measure/bar - 1 unit of a repeated pattern. Meter- two or more measures of an accented pattern. Back beat - an accent on 2nd and 4th beat of a measure. Duration: whole note = 4 beats, half note = 2, quarter note = 1 beat, 8th note, quarter rest. Meter: bottom number = which duration gets the beat, top number = how many durations.
