MUS 1030 Lecture 1: Music Appreciation Musical Elements (Ch. 1) Notes
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Music the organization of sound over time. Rhythm making a pattern out of that organized sound from the carious long and short durations of individual sounds (i. e. different people"s footsteps, clocks) o. Silence can help define this pattern and in music silence is called a rest. Beat the regularly recurring pulse in music o. It measures the duration of the sounds within a rhythm. ***a dotted note adds half of the note"s original value o. Tempo the speed of the beat in a piece of music o. Metronome markings, which tell you the number of the beats per minute. Tempo terms italian originally: metronome -- an electronic or mechanical means for generating a regular beat at any tempo desired. Lucy in the sky with diamonds switches between triple and quadruple meter: barlines indicate the grouping od beats and divide the music into equal parts called measures, meter is indicated by a time signature.
