MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Simple Verse, Thirty-Two-Bar Form, Duple Coachbuilders
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Simple verse form: consists of a series of verses, all of which use the same underlying music, contains no chorus or bridge sections, though the verses may contain a refrain. Instrumental verse: verse section that repeats the music of the verse, without the singing and with an instrument soloing, is an instrumental verse, guitar, saxophone, and keyboard are common. Bar/measure: musi(cid:272)ia(cid:374)s ofte(cid:374) (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t out a so(cid:374)g sa(cid:455)i(cid:374)g, (cid:862)(cid:1005),(cid:1006),(cid:1007),(cid:1008)(cid:863, bar of music, and numbers represent beats, bars usually have the same number of beats in them throughout the song. Rhythm: refers to the organized patterning of the temporal dimension in music, refer to a rhythmic figure in the music, which is usually a short segment with a clearly defined profile of some kind. Meter classification: classifies how we feel the organization of the rhythm for a particular song or passage, classified as either simple or compound, and then as either duple, triple, or quadruple, 6 meters that are most common.
