MUSIC 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Duple Coachbuilders
Lecture 2
Elements of music:
• Melody
• Rhythm
• Harmony
• Texture
• Timbre
• Dynamics
• Form
• World-Music Relationship
• Genre
Melody
A single line of notes heard in succession as a coherent unit
Notes
The smallest unit of music, the building blocks out of which larger structures are created
A melody is like a sentence and the notes are the words that make up the sentence
Example :
Happy Birthday to you (Phrases)
Happy Birthday to you (Phrase)
Happy Birthday, dear Amelia (Phrase)
Happy Birthday. (Phrase)
Each phrase consists of only a few notes. As a whole, the melody is quite short
Melodic Motions
Refers to the shape or direction of a string of notes
• Conjunct Motion: stepwise, side by side motion, Narrow intervals (chants)
• Disjunct Motion: motion by leaps, wide intervals
• Upward motion: ascending trajectory
• Downward motions: descending trajectory
Cadence
It signals the end of a unit that can stand on its own. We sense of point of resolution, or closure,
like a period at the end of a sentence
Document Summary
Elements of music: melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, timbre, dynamics, form, world-music relationship, genre. A single line of notes heard in succession as a coherent unit. The smallest unit of music, the building blocks out of which larger structures are created. A melody is like a sentence and the notes are the words that make up the sentence. Each phrase consists of only a few notes. As a whole, the melody is quite short. Refers to the shape or direction of a string of notes: conjunct motion: stepwise, side by side motion, narrow intervals (chants, disjunct motion: motion by leaps, wide intervals, upward motion: ascending trajectory, downward motions: descending trajectory. It signals the end of a unit that can stand on its own. We sense of point of resolution, or closure, like a period at the end of a sentence. Scale: a series of notes that moves stepwise and covers a complete span of an octave, do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.
