VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The New Grove Dictionary Of Music And Musicians, Tonality, Ternary Form
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Form the constructive or organizing element in music. Ex. if you"re singing by yourself it would have a thin texture but if you add more ppl then you will have a thick texture. Consonance/dissonance and their relationship with melodic or tonal completion. If you have a strong dissonance and then a consonance you"d have a closure. Consonance an interval (two notes) that sounds resolved and stable. Dissonance an interval that sounds unresolved and unstable. Antecedent, consequent two musical phrases, the second of which is a concluding response to or resolution of the first. Closure a sense of relative musical stability or finality. Harmony the relationship of pitches as they sound simultaneously. Cadence a melodic or harmonic configuration that creates a sense of repose or resolution. Phrase a unit of musical materials articulated by a cadence or some other type of closure ex. Section a group of phrases which are related in the listener"s mind by proximity or musical content.
