MUSI 2520 : Music 2520- Week #1.docx
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Characteristics of music: western music refers to all music born in the western world and europe (western world means north america etc, dates back over 1000 years, western music is different from others b/c of the instruments used (this is what differentiates any music from one another) instrumentation, also the tuning of instruments equal temperament, also differentiates western music from typical quarter tone and melodically complex music of eastern culture (we have 7 notes in our scale, octave sing it on level higher (he did on piano, western music scale contains seven or more notes, we have seven notes in the major scale, but we have 12 notes in the cromatic scale. Harmony: melodies are left to right harmonies are vertical, harmony in music refers to when two or more notes sound simultaneously, harmony can be classified as constant (pleasant, its spread apart) or dissonant (tense, shower stab scene, major harmony= happy, minor harmony= sad.
