MUS 1751 Chapter : 1st Class
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They all interact to make musical stye a series of pitches arranged to form a cohesive, musical line. More commonly called a tune : most melodies have four main elements in common: A goal or climax a final feeling of repose. Pitch the relative position of a sound high or low. Duplication of a pitch either higher or lower is called the octave. The octave is produced by either a doubling or having the vibration rate. A= 550 octave up is 880 octave down is 220. Western music has preferred a division of 7 pitches in the octave. C d e f g a b c (octave: melodies are notated on a grid work of lines called a staff. This staff is marked with a clef to show the relative position of the pitches. Two most important clefs are the treble clef and the bas clef. High voices have the treble clef, low voices have the bass clef.
