MUSIC 15 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 1: Legato, Quarter Note, Staccato

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From MITA (download); Deep Glossary-A musical Languages Guide
Music: sounds organized by humans to express feeling or fulfill human
needs
Not exactly a universal language because of its vast diversity
Rhythm: the incidence and duration of sounds; the lifeblood of music
1) The patterns in time created by the incidence and duration of
sounds
2) used more loosely in both singular and plural forms to refer to a
particular rhythm, e.g. “a dotted rhythm” smooth rhythms, an
erratic one, etc
Teaching of rhythm traditionally organized around musical
notation (quarter note, whole notes, etc)
Melody
1) in music, the succession of single notes in a coherent
arrangement
2) a particular succession of such notes (also referred to as tune,
theme, voice). A melody, therefore unfolds through time while a
harmony occurs simultaneously
Accompanied and unaccompanied
Harmony: the result of the simultaneous playing of two or more different
pitches
Succession of harmonies: chord progressions;
Created by adding voices to a melody
Texture: the “weave” of a musical passage
Ranging from monophony to homophony, theme and
accompaniment, counterpoint, etc
Greatly affected by instruments and vocal colors, dynamics,
ranges, articulation (staccato or legato), etc; infinite combos
Color (Timbre)
The quality of a sound
Form/Shape: “shape-through-time”; strategies that composers devise to
organize music
Repetition, contrast, variation
Term used commonly to describe most conventional music
shapes is “form” or even structure
Shape can be what makes a piece memorable and recognizable ,
ex: an A-B-A-B pattern
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From mita (download); deep glossary-a musical languages guide. Music: sounds organized by humans to express feeling or fulfill human needs. Not exactly a universal language because of its vast diversity. Rhythm: the incidence and duration of sounds; the lifeblood of music. 1) the patterns in time created by the incidence and duration of sounds. 2) used more loosely in both singular and plural forms to refer to a particular rhythm, e. g. a dotted rhythm smooth rhythms, an erratic one, etc. Teaching of rhythm traditionally organized around musical notation (quarter note, whole notes, etc) 1) in music, the succession of single notes in a coherent arrangement. 2) a particular succession of such notes (also referred to as tune, theme, voice). A melody, therefore unfolds through time while a harmony occurs simultaneously. Harmony: the result of the simultaneous playing of two or more different pitches. Created by adding voices to a melody. Texture: the weave of a musical passage.

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