2. Overview of Music
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- Popular Music
- This type of music usually represents a specific time period such as the jazz of the 1920's. It can also represent a specific region such as New Orleans jazz or an ethnic group such as Latinos.
- Tone
- This refers to any sound made on a musical instrument. They are also called notes, and are arranged on a scale in a rising or falling pitch. Notes are assigned letters (A, B, C, D, E, F, G).
- Melody
- This is the pleasing arrangement of sounds, including both rhythms and pitches.
- Brass Instruments
- These instruments are wind instruments made of metal and are played by vibrations produced by the lips. Come common instruments in this group are the trumpet, French horn, and trombone.
- Standard Notation
- The usual way of writing music is called.
- Chord
- The combination of three or more notes at the same time creates one of these.
- Music
- This art form can be defined as the art of creating and arranging audible sounds into a specific structure or organization.
- Conductor
- A person who directs an orchestra.
- Octave
- When the notes are played inorder, they are repeated after the eighth letter, which forms one of these.
- Electronic Musical Instruments
- These musical instruments use electricity to produce, amplify, or increase a sound.
- Chanteys
- Sailors sang this type of work song.
- Learning Objectives
- After reading this lesson, you should be able to perform these tasks: (1) discuss the purpose of music, (2) describe the elements of musical genres, (3) define music theory, (4) summarize music notation, (5) identify different types of musical instruments, and (6) examine the elements of a music ensemble.
- Music Ensemble
- This is a group of two or more persons or instruments that perform music. It can consist of several combinations including: a duet (two), a trio (three), a quartet (four), quintet (five), a sextet (six), a septet (seven), an octet (eight), or a nonet (nine).
- Composer
- A person who writes music is called this. A composition may be a piece of music for one person or instrument, or for a choir or an entire orchestra.
- Harmony
- This is the combination of pitches sounded together. Composers use intervals, which are the distances between the notes on a scale, to develop it.
- Woodwind Instruments
- There are two main types of wind instruments. This type of wind instrument uses vibrations of a reed to produce sound. Some common woodwind instruments are the oboe, bassoon, clarinet, saxophone, and flute.
- Pitch
- This item refers to the lowness or highness of a tone. A sound can have eithr a high or a low one of these.
- Music Theory
- This is a broad field of study that includes all aspects of creating, analyzing, and performing music. It includes the elements of music such as sound, pitch, melody, harmony, rhythm, tone, and standard musical notation and also includes the way a piece of music might be interpreted or described.
- String Instruments
- These instruments are played with a bow, by plucking the strings with the fingers, or by striking the strings with a hammer. Violins, cellos, violas, and harps are examples.
- Form
- Composers use contrast and repetitiion of harmonies, rhythms, and melodies to give this to their music. Composers often vary all three during the repetition of earlier material.
- Folk Music
- This type of music represents the folklore and traditional stories of a culture or people.
- Percussion Instruments
- These instruments produce sound when one object strikes another or by shaking or striking with an object such as a stick or hammer. Drums, pianos, and zylophones are examples.
- Music Genres
- Music can be found everywhere in the world. It takes many forms and styles including classical, folk, and popular. The music from Europe and North and South America is known as western music, which is divided into two distinct categories of popular and classical.
- Musical Instruments
- These items fall into the categories of wind, string, brass, percussion, and electronic.
- Score
- Music for an orchestra is called this. It displays the music for each instrument.
- Classical Music
- Classical music is used in the performance of symphonies, ballets, and operas.
- Tone Color
- This, which is also called timbre, refers to the quality of the sound being made by the notes. Composers sometimes use it to create a mood in the music.
- Rhythm
- This item refers to the arrangement and organization of the notes with regard to how long they will be played. It is the patterned, recurring alternation of the contrasting sounds. The duration of a note refers to how long it will be held by the musician.
- Composition
- This is the way the elements of music are put together to form a piece of music.
- Staff
- The five-line staff, a set of horizontal lines and spaces used to represent a sequence of pitches, is where signs, symbols, notes, and clefs are written or placed to show how a piece of music will be played.