MUS 1751 Chapter : MUS1751 Musical ElementsEarly Music
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You may find out you know more of this than you realize, you just didn"t know what it was called. *mozart is shown to make you smarter: [in this class, you will] learn to be a good listener: active v. passive listening. Building blocks of music: melody, rhythm, harmony. Interact to create musical styles: a melody is a series of pitches arranged to form a cohesive musical line. Publication of a pitch, either high or low, is called the octave. [the tonic pitch c is the scale c major the key is c major: one more type of scale: the chromatic scale, classical pieces like to manipulate they don"t always stay in the same key. In fact the moving away from and returning to the tonic is part of how the music is made. It takes practice to hear these processes at work, but it is recognizable. For now think of it as a change in scenery.
