MUAR 211 Lecture 3: MAUR 211 - 3
6 Dec 2017
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Tempo: the pace or speed of a piece of music. ** careful not to confuse increase/decrease in tempo with change in texture** Meter: regular organization of beats (1,2 & 1,2 & 1,2) Rhythm: how we arrange notes around the meter. Makes music interesting since the accents were always in the same place music would be boring. Pitch: relative highness or lowness of sound. On a piano one key will be high than another. Note abcdefg in germanic speaking culture, letter names are given to keys. In later derived (including francophones), cultures, note-names are taken from lating words. Melody: successively arranged pitched; tune that are not just a scale, as there is no emotional content in a scale. Often going to be heard in the upper voice , which are the notes on top. A chord will usually have 3 notes or more.
