MUS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Zadok, Duple Coachbuilders, Yankee Doodle
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Music: the art of sound in time, art, sound, time. The basic unit of measurement for time in music. Clock time (measured in seconds) vs musical time (measured in beat) Tempo: the speed of music, the rate at which the basic, regular beats follow one another, can be exact or approximate. *some common tempo indications include: adagio= slow, andante= on slow side, not too slow, moderato= moderate, allegro= fast. Metronome: a mechanical or electrical device that ticks beats at any desired tempo. Accent: making some beats more emphatic (more intense) louder than others (patterns of strong and weak beats help beat keep track of time) Broadest sense: general way music unfolds in time, main driving focus in time. Specific sense: a rhythm : the specific arrangement of long and short notes (durations) in a piece of music. Measure: each occurrence of a repeated pattern of beats with a principal strong beat followed by one or more weaker beat.
