Concepts of Music
Pitch:
- High or low
- Range( distance between the highest and lowest note, whole ensemble or one part)
- Harmonies, melodies ( steps or leaps)
- Melodic repetition
- Tonality ( major, minor, atonal)
- Dissonant( ugly) or consonant ( pretty)
- Style
- Direction of pitch movement
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- Rhythm
- Repetition (who is using repetition?)
- Time signature( How many bets per bar? Simple and compound time signatures)
- Tempo
- Rhythmic devices (Syncopation- off beat, anacrusis, diminuation, poly rhythms)
- Long notes ( semibreves, minimums, rests )
- Short notes (quavers, semiquavers, rests) contrast between these two types of notes.
- Accents, staccatos and tenutos makes the note values sounds different. ( articulation)
- Rhythmic patterns ( Ostinatos, cross rhythms, syncopation, Metrical)
Tone Colour:
- How instruments sound,
- Ensembles and how they relate together
- Families ( strings, woodwind, brass, percussion, voices
- How is the sound made? ( blown-reed, none, string- pluck, bow, hit- mallet)
- Performing media
- Subjective descriptions of the overall sound
Texture:
- Layers of sound ( monophonic, homophone, polyphonic, heterophonic )
- The density of the sound ( rich, thick, full, dense, light airy, sparse
- The change in densities of the sound
Structure:
- Unity and contrast
- Form ( binary , ternary, Rondo, theme and variation, sonata)
- Diversity or change ( introducing new material, or bring back old material in a new way)
- Contrast in moods or character of the music
- Balance within the piece( correct proportion of sound in each musical element
Dynamics and expressive techniques:
- Volume levels, change in volume, terraced dynamics, accentuation
- Articulation patterns ( staccato, legato, tenuto)
- Accentuation
- Instrumental techniques( glissando etc )
- Stylistic indications ( e.g. dolce )
- Articulation patterns
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