MUS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Concertmaster, Monophony, Homophony
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*first chair player in the first violin section. *directs the first chair oboe player to give the pitch to tune the orchestra at the beginning of a performance. *when the stringed instruments in an orchestra play by plucking, rather than bowing the strings. *device that lessons or softens the sound of an instrument. *a singer"s voice is normally classified into a specific timbre category. *song = one or more singers singing a specific text. *work or a piece = a piece of music that does not have any singers and is all instrumental. *beat: a steady underlying pulse felt and conveyed by the performers, which may or may not be heard by the audience. *rhythm: the length of sounds and silences that happen during the beats. *beats are usually grouped together by a regular occurrence of an accented beat. *beats can be grouped into 2s, 3s, 4s or more. *a double meter has a 2 beat per group.
