MUSIC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Monophony

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Music
• Course: MUSIC100
• Professor: John Brownell

Document Summary

Hierarchy in orchestra: melody and accompaniment (song texture) Only music we are really familiar with. Melody and accompany part is harmonized with melody. Appeals to more mathematicians more than composers. Wrote a melody that harmonized but mirror (reflection of first half) Imitation (overlap, intertwine but all come together in the end) Hint for quiz: after baroque era is almost all song texture. Best thought of as (cid:862)orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)(cid:863) i(cid:374) ti(cid:373)e. Diffi(cid:272)ulty of re(cid:272)og(cid:374)izi(cid:374)g (cid:862)for(cid:373)(cid:863) of te(cid:373)poral art o(cid:374)e (cid:272)a(cid:374) see for(cid:373) (cid:894)(cid:271)ala(cid:374)(cid:272)e, (cid:272)o(cid:374)trast, et(cid:272). (cid:895) in sculpture and painting. Balance/contrast are also important in creating musical form. Really o(cid:374)ly two thi(cid:374)gs you (cid:272)a(cid:374) do the sa(cid:373)e thi(cid:374)g (cid:894)repetitio(cid:374)(cid:895) or so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g different (contrast) Variation is really a little of both. A variation is a little bit different from the original but not so different as to be unrecognizable. Notio(cid:374) of (cid:373)usi(cid:272)al (cid:862)stru(cid:272)ture(cid:863) or arra(cid:374)ge(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of (cid:373)aterial. Form can be on a small or (very) large scale: binary a-b.