MUSI 1306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Concert Etiquette, Counter-Melody, Polyrhythm
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Prelude 1 outline: attending concerts, choosing concerts. 1. 3. local and college newspapers: prepare in advance. 2. 4. read concert program: the concert program, sample program. 1. 2. program notes: notes on pieces, biographical performer sketches: during the performance, concert etiquette. 1. 4. performers: concert dress: encore: additional piece. Each melody is unique in contour (how it moves up and down) and in range, or span of pitches. An interval is the distance between any two pitches. A melody that moves in small, connected intervals is conjunct, while one that moves by leaps is disjunct. The units that make up a melody are phrases; phrases end in resting places called cadences. A melody may be accompanied by a secondary melody, or a countermelody. Outline: defining melody, horizontal aspect of music, melody: tune (succession of single pitches perceived as a whole) 2. 1. range: distance between lowest and highest notes. 2. 5. disjunct: larger, disconnected intervals: the structure of melody, phrase: unit within larger structure of melody.
