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Elements of Music

The document outlines the seven main elements of music: 1. Rhythm provides structure and pulse through duration, tempo, and meter. 2. Dynamics relate to loudness and quietness through terms like crescendo, diminuendo, and accent. 3. Melody focuses on linear scales and can be conjunct or disjunct. 4. Harmony focuses on vertical pitch combinations through chords and progressions, involving dissonance and consonance. 5. Tone color produces unique characteristics through the singer or instrument. 6. Texture refers to the number and relationship of musical lines as monophonic, homophonic, or polyphonic.

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Elements of Music

The document outlines the seven main elements of music: 1. Rhythm provides structure and pulse through duration, tempo, and meter. 2. Dynamics relate to loudness and quietness through terms like crescendo, diminuendo, and accent. 3. Melody focuses on linear scales and can be conjunct or disjunct. 4. Harmony focuses on vertical pitch combinations through chords and progressions, involving dissonance and consonance. 5. Tone color produces unique characteristics through the singer or instrument. 6. Texture refers to the number and relationship of musical lines as monophonic, homophonic, or polyphonic.

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Elements of Music

1. RHYTHM-It is one of the elements of music that gives structure and pulse of the music. The
following structures are the duration, tempo, and meter.

2. DYNAMICS- is part of the musical elements that relate to the loudness or quietness of
music. Basic terms related to dynamics are crescendo, diminuendo, and accent.

3. MELODY- It is a musical element that focuses on the horizontal or linear presentation of


various scales. Melodies can be described into conjunct and disjunct.

4. HARMONY- It is the opposite to melody. It focuses on the verticalization of the pitch. It is


thought to be as an art of combining pitches into chords and carefully and usually arranged
into sentence like patterns called progression. In this context, the dissonance and consonance
are the terms being described in harmony. Other terms that may relate to this are modality,
tonality, and atonality of the music composition.

5. TONE COLOR-It is a musical element that produces different and unique characteristics
that have obviously produced by the singer. Another term for this is timber (Tam-ber).

6. TEXTURE-This musical element refers to the number of individual musical lines and the
relationship of these lines to each other. Texture can be classified into monophonic,
homophonic, and polyphonic.

7. MUSICAL FORM-It is an order of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic events of a piece. It


designates musical division brought to a repetition of melodic material and or the
presentation of new yet contrasting material. Forms can be described into strophic, through-
composed, binary and ternary form.

INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY
Create a 2-minute electronic music piece using your knowledge of 20th century
musical styles. Record different sounds that are heard in the environment, such as the
bustle of traffic, the sound of the wind, the barking of dogs, the strumming of guitar, the
cry of an infant, on your mobile phone, iPod, tablet, MP3, MP4, or any electronic
recording device that you have. Then, manipulate the sounds in different ways, for
example by playing the recording device in its fastest or slowest mode or in any creative
arrangement that you like.

Scoring Guide:
Organization/Arrangement of sounds-------------- 40 %
Expression of the Elements of Music------------------ 30 %
Creativity/Originality----------------------------------------20 %
Time---------------------------------------------------------------10 %
TOTAL-------------------------------------------------------------100 %

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