MUS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Counterpoint, Monophony, Homophony
13 Sep 2017
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Rhythm: how music unfolds in time; usually refers to the actual arrangement of duration of tone/silence in a line of music. Beat: basic unit of measurement for time. Accent: enable us to beat time: alternate accented and unaccented beats. Measure (a bar): one unit of strong and weak beats. Melody: single line of notes heard in succession: tune. Pitch: relative position, high or low, of a note. Frequency: a certain rate of sound vibration. Motion of melody: steps (whole or half): conjunct motion. Structure of melody: phrases: phrases in text and music usually correspond, cadence: end of a phrase (ex: period at the end of a sentence) If any note is the central note of a scale, then the scale is in the key of that note. Sometimes tempo and dynamics are marked on the score by the composer, while in other cases they are left for the performer to improvise according to musical context.
