FIN 501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Complex Differential Form, Duple And Quadruple Metre, Middle Eastern Music
23 Oct 2017
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Sounds can be altered in four basic ways to create music: time, pitch, intensity, and timbre: time. Additive meters are common in eastern european, arab, persian, and indian musics. Tempo: the pace of music, expressed in bpm (beats per minute): pitch. Melody: oxford dictionary of music: a succession of notes, varying in pitch, which have an organized and recognizable shape. Phrase: melodies are usually made up of a number of phrases e. g. twinkle twinkle little star has six phrases: Melodic contour: the shape of a melody or phrase. Phrases typically ascend, descend, or form an arc. In the above example phrases 1 and 5 are ascending, phrases 2, 3,4 and 6 are descending. Phrases 1 and 2, form an arc it starts low and goes up, then comes back down. Scale: the total group of notes that make up one octave of a melody. A piano can play up to 12 notes in one octave.
