MUSIC 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Strophic Form, Vibrato, Acoustic Music
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Genre: a category of music, such as symphony, hymn, ballad, mass, march, and opera. Harmony: pitches heard simultaneously in ways that produce chords and chord progressions. Improvisation: the process of simultaneously composing, performing, and listening to music. Lining out: a call-and-response style of hymn singing whereby a minister or song leader sings one line at a time and the congregation sings it back, usually adding embellishments and often at a much slower tempo. Lining out is derived from rural, folk traditions and was brought to the united states from the british isles. Melody: a succession of musical tones, usually of varying pitch and rhythm, that has identifiable shape and meaning. A melody may be characterized by its smooth, conjunct shape that moves mostly stepwise or by its disjunct, angular shape resulting from frequent use of wide intervals (skips). It may comprise a wide or narrow range of pitches.
