MUSIC 15 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 1: Legato, Quarter Note, Staccato
● Readings
○ 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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Document Summary
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.