MUS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Coloratura, Voice Type, Exoticism
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The instruments that most resembles the human voice are the strings. Coloratura both a voice type and style of singing. The style of singing includes fast running passages, high notes, and agility. Virtuoso high level of technical ability in an artist. Aesthetics study of beauty and art, philosophy of art, greek. The three registers of the voice are head (high), middle, and chest which are amplifiers. Limited range: slides down slowly, cracking. Exoticism orient / far east influenced music, an obsession with faraway people and places. Cathartic a draining experience, becoming involved and experiencing something. Elements of music: rhythm heartbeat of music, basic beat, orderly movement of music in time. Meter grouping of beats: duple, triple, and compound. Rhythm is king in africa: melody meaningful succession of tones, a complete thought, horizontal in time. A motive is an incomplete idea (motif) which is important to form: harmony two or more pitches played simultaneously, vertical in time.
