MUSCLG 7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hexatonic Scale, Semitone, Mixolydian Mode
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Lecture 3: 4/8/19; 2 questions on the quiz!, use new grove dictionary of music and musicians. Analysis: the study of musical structures, the music itself. Said to include the interpretation of structures in music, together with their resolution into relatively simpler constituent elements, and the investigation of the relevant functions of those elements. In such a process the musical structure may stand for part of a work, a work in its entirely, a group or even a repertory of works, in a written or oral tradition. Difference in repetition makes us talk about structure. Shmrg: sound: includes timbre, texture and register, harmony: the vertical dimension, pitches in simultaneity, melody: the horizontal dimension, pitches in succession, rhythm: meter (background) and rhythm (foreground, growth: patterns of repetition, procedures of unfolding. Scale: a linearly ordered collection of pitches. Mode: most commonly defined as a diatomic scale other than major/minor.
