VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The New Grove Dictionary Of Music And Musicians, Synesthesia, Tonality
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Form the constructive or organizing element in music. Constructive or organizing element in music (central to this is time and events happening in time) Putting names to things - what forms have in common. Synesthesia seeing shapes when listening to music. Elements that help us recognize form: consonance/dissonance and their relationship with melodic or tonal completion, repetition of melodies, motives, and textures, cadences, changes in texture. Melody a succession of pitches having a coherence similar to that found in a sentence in language. Motive a short fragment of melody or rhythm used in constructing a long section of music. Harmony the relationship of pitches as they sound simultaneously. Chord three or more pitches sounding simultaneously. Closure a sense of relative musical stability or finality. Consonance an interval (two notes) that sounds resolved and stable. Dissonance an interval that sounds unresolved and unstable sounds like the sounds are fighting each other.
