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Elements of Music

Music can be defined as organized, harmonious sounds that evoke emotion, while sound is any vibration heard. Some key elements that define music include dynamics (loudness and softness), form (structure), harmony (combination of notes), melody (series of connected notes), rhythm (pattern of sounds and silences), texture (number of layers), and tonality (combination of tones). Music notation symbols like notes and rests are used to represent these elements on the musical staff.

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Elements of Music

Music can be defined as organized, harmonious sounds that evoke emotion, while sound is any vibration heard. Some key elements that define music include dynamics (loudness and softness), form (structure), harmony (combination of notes), melody (series of connected notes), rhythm (pattern of sounds and silences), texture (number of layers), and tonality (combination of tones). Music notation symbols like notes and rests are used to represent these elements on the musical staff.

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What is the difference between music and sounds?

MUSIC
- A vocal or instrumental sounds ( or both) combined in such a way as to produced beauty of form,
harmony, and expression of emotion
- It is an arrangement and organized sound.

SOUND

- It is the sensation perceived by the sense of hearing.


- It is produced when an object vibrates.

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1. DYNAMICS
- it is how loud and how soft the music is.
- it signifies the degree of loudness and the softness in a piece of music

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A crescendo is used for gradually getting louder, and a decrescendo or diminuendo is used for
gradually getting softer.

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2. FORM
-musical form, the structure of a musical composition. The term is regularly used in two
senses: to denote a standard type, or genre and to denote the procedures in a specific work.

3. HARMONY
-Supports a melody and a combination of two or more musical notes that are sounding
together.

- is the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of


sounds, is analyzed by hearing

Example: People singing, sounds from a musical instrument. chords.

TWO MAIN TYPES

DISSONANCE- are the harsh sounding combination of musical notes or sound.

CONSONANCE- are the smooth-sounding combination of musical notes or sound.

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4. MELODY
- are a series of notes connected together to express one idea.
- it is the succession of high and low sounds
- also may be described as a combination of pitch and rhythm.

Example: the song Twinkle- Twinkle Little Star


5. RHYTHM
- it is the pattern of sounds and silence with the combination of long and short
sounds.
- it is also the element of time in music

BEAT- is a steady and regular pulse we hers in music.

RHYTHM- is the combination of sounds and silences and the actual flow of music through time.

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MUSICAL NOTE AND REST

6. TEXTURE
- it refers to the number of layers used in a composition
- it may also refer to the individual instrument you her in a particular song.

Example: you hear a guitar, a violin, a piano, and a voice or a singer.


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3 TYPES OF TEXTURE

1. MONOPHONIC
- it uses only one melodic line, there is no accompaniment or harmony.
-monophonic comes from the word mono which means only one and phonic
means sound.

Example: You will only hear a soloist singing in a Capela without accompaniment.

2. POLYPHONIC

- it has two or more independent melodies performed alternately.

-poly comes from the word same and phonic means sound.

Example: Canon and Fugue

3. HOMOPHONIC
- it has two or more notes sounding at the same time.

-it can be performed with a soloist or accompaniment.

-homo comes from the word poly which means many and phonic means

sound.

Example: the soloist and the pianist perform at the same time

: a choir or a chorale wherein a soprano, an alto, a tenor, and bass is singing at the

same time.
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7. TIMBRE

- it is the characteristics of sounds that distinguished one instrument from another.

-also described as the tone quality or color of an instrument.

VOCAL TYPES

● SOPRANO- the highest female voice

● ALTO- the lowest female voice

● TENOR- the highest male voice

● BASS- the lowest male voice

8. TONALITY

- is the quality of a tone, the combination of colors used in a painting, or how the tones of

musical composition is combined.

Example: pitch of a person's singing voice and painting with a cool color scheme.

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