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Music
- Defined in various ways, depending on its role in a given culture as well as on highly subjective individual opinion
- The prevailing (Western) idea of music is as an art of organized sounds
2 Characteristics of Sound
- Pitch
- Highness or lowness
- Dynamic level
-Loudness of softness
Pitch
-The pitch of a sound depends on the rate of vibration, or frequency, of the sound-producing medium.
- A faster rate of vibration causes a higher pitch, and a slower rate of vibration causes a lower pitch.
- A tone is a specific pitch, produced by sound waves with a constant rate of vibration
- Western music refers to tones with letter names, using the letters A through G.
Dynamics
- For a long time in the history of music, composers did not indicate the level of volume at which their music should be performed.
- The loudness or softness of music depended on such circumstances as the number of performers, the kinds of voices or instruments involved, and the acoustic characteristics of the performance site.
-Beginning in the seventeenth century, composers began indicating degrees of loudness or softness in their music.
Rhythm
- Concerns the arrangement of long and short sounds in music
- Since music is never static but continually moves in time, it always has rhythm
Tempo
- Rate of speed at which a musical piece is performed Meter
- In much music, especially that of the Western world, rhythm is organized into metrical patterns, or metered.
-Metered music is notated in units called measures (sometimes called bars), each containing a certain number of beats.
Melody
- A succession of tones logically conceived to make musical sense
- Just as words, varied in sound and meaning, are arranged in a particular order to form a sentence, the tones of melodies, varying in pitch and duration, must be organized in order to be meaningful
Scales
- A melody is built on tones selected from an ascending or descending pattern of tones, within the range of an octave, called a scale
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- Defined in various ways, depending on its role in a given culture as well as on highly subjective individual opinion
- The prevailing (Western) idea of music is as an art of organized sounds
2 Characteristics of Sound
- Pitch
- Highness or lowness
- Dynamic level
-Loudness of softness
Pitch
-The pitch of a sound depends on the rate of vibration, or frequency, of the sound-producing medium.
- A faster rate of vibration causes a higher pitch, and a slower rate of vibration causes a lower pitch.
- A tone is a specific pitch, produced by sound waves with a constant rate of vibration
- Western music refers to tones with letter names, using the letters A through G.
Dynamics
- For a long time in the history of music, composers did not indicate the level of volume at which their music should be performed.
- The loudness or softness of music depended on such circumstances as the number of performers, the kinds of voices or instruments involved, and the acoustic characteristics of the performance site.
-Beginning in the seventeenth century, composers began indicating degrees of loudness or softness in their music.
Rhythm
- Concerns the arrangement of long and short sounds in music
- Since music is never static but continually moves in time, it always has rhythm
Tempo
- Rate of speed at which a musical piece is performed Meter
- In much music, especially that of the Western world, rhythm is organized into metrical patterns, or metered.
-Metered music is notated in units called measures (sometimes called bars), each containing a certain number of beats.
Melody
- A succession of tones logically conceived to make musical sense
- Just as words, varied in sound and meaning, are arranged in a particular order to form a sentence, the tones of melodies, varying in pitch and duration, must be organized in order to be meaningful
Scales
- A melody is built on tones selected from an ascending or descending pattern of tones, within the range of an octave, called a scale
- The