MUS 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Firebreak, Duple Coachbuilders
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Pitch the high or low of a musical sound. Dynamic the loud or soft of a musical sound. Duration the length of a musical sound. Timbre (tone color) the quality of a musical sound. Slide 2: melody: musical line: musical sounds have pitch (frequency, pitches represented on a fire-line staff. >symbol designates pitch and duration: pitches also have volume (dynamic) and tone color (timbre, melody- succession of pitches. >range: is the distance between highest and lowest pitches. >interval: is the distance between any two pitches. Slide 3: the structure of melody: phrase- a unit of meaning within a larger structure, cadences-resting places at ends of phrases. >melody with text may contain rhyme scheme: climax- peak of intensity in a melody, countermelody-a melody occurring simultaneously with another melody. Slide 1: rhythm and meter: musical time: rhythm: movement of music in time (patterns of sound and silences, beat: regular pulse, basic unit of rhythm.
