MUS 113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tonality, Mimesis, Heterophony
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Musical attributes: features of a musical composition we attempt to focus in on and take specific note of, musical properties, parameters, measured or defined as qualities, intensities, or just sensory data to be described. Listeners might subjectively perceive fast and slow differently. Need to be able to recognize the things that don"t change to hear the qualities that differ from the norm: register/range: the pitch is high or low, medium high or medium low. Difference in the pitches being close together or very far apart. Registration: organ, the pipes that are engaged when the key is pressed; the stops". Each instrument has its own range: total/maximum range and effective range (best) Composer chooses notes for each instrument consciously depending on the instrument"s range: density: how many parts are played at one time. Dense is to be crowded as not dense is to be empty.
