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    The document summarizes key elements of music including pitch, rhythm, melody, timbre, dynamics, and texture. It defines pitch as the highness or lowness of a musical note and describes scales and intervals. It defines rhythm as the time element of music involving patterns, pulse, tempo, and meter. It describes melody as a combination of pitch and rhythm that may be characterized by its contour and interval size. It defines timbre as the tone color or quality of sound that distinguishes instruments. It describes dynamics as loudness and softness that can change suddenly or gradually. Finally, it defines texture as involving one, many, or mixed musical lines including monophonic, polyphonic, homophonic

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    The document summarizes key elements of music including pitch, rhythm, melody, timbre, dynamics, and texture. It defines pitch as the highness or lowness of a musical note and describes scales and intervals. It defines rhythm as the time element of music involving patterns, pulse, tempo, and meter. It describes melody as a combination of pitch and rhythm that may be characterized by its contour and interval size. It defines timbre as the tone color or quality of sound that distinguishes instruments. It describes dynamics as loudness and softness that can change suddenly or gradually. Finally, it defines texture as involving one, many, or mixed musical lines including monophonic, polyphonic, homophonic

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    The document summarizes key elements of music including pitch, rhythm, melody, timbre, dynamics, and texture. It defines pitch as the highness or lowness of a musical note and describes scales and intervals. It defines rhythm as the time element of music involving patterns, pulse, tempo, and meter. It describes melody as a combination of pitch and rhythm that may be characterized by its contour and interval size. It defines timbre as the tone color or quality of sound that distinguishes instruments. It describes dynamics as loudness and softness that can change suddenly or gradually. Finally, it defines texture as involving one, many, or mixed musical lines including monophonic, polyphonic, homophonic

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    The document summarizes key elements of music including pitch, rhythm, melody, timbre, dynamics, and texture. It defines pitch as the highness or lowness of a musical note and describes scales and intervals. It defines rhythm as the time element of music involving patterns, pulse, tempo, and meter. It describes melody as a combination of pitch and rhythm that may be characterized by its contour and interval size. It defines timbre as the tone color or quality of sound that distinguishes instruments. It describes dynamics as loudness and softness that can change suddenly or gradually. Finally, it defines texture as involving one, many, or mixed musical lines including monophonic, polyphonic, homophonic

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    Submitted By: Denice Angela T.
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    9-Faith
    Submitted To: Mrs. Krissa Mae
    Tanare

    Elements of Music
    Pitch – register (high or low); Organization of pitches with a pattern
    of intervals between them creates scales; Words we might use to
    describe scales: major/minor, chromatic, gapped, pentatonic.

    Rhythm – the time element of music. A specific rhythm is a specific pattern


    in time; we usually hear these in relation to a steady pulse, and
    mentally organize this pulse or tempo into meter (sometimes
    called a "time signature"). Meter organizes beats into groups,
    usually of two or three; beats can be divided into small units
    usually 2, 3 or 4 subdivisions

    Melody, or musical line, is a combination of pitch and rhythm (some say


    "duration"). Sometimes a melody is considered to be the theme of a
    composition. We might characterize melody by its contour (rising or
    falling) and the size of the intervals in it. A melody that uses
    mostly small intervals (or scale steps) and is smooth is said to be
    a conjunct melody. Not surprisingly, a melody that uses large
    intervals is called a disjunct melody. A motif (or motive) is either
    a very short melody or a distinctive part of a longer melody. I
    might describe the opening four notes of Beethoven's Fifth
    Symphony as a "motific cell."
    Timbre – sound quality or tone color; timbre is the characteristic that
    allows us to distinguish between one instrument and another, and
    the difference between vowel sounds (for example, long "a" or
    "ee"). Terms we might use to describe timbre: bright, dark, brassy,
    reedy, harsh, noisy, thin, buzzy, pure, raspy, shrill, mellow,
    strained. I prefer to avoid describing timbre in emotional terms
    (excited, angry, happy, sad, etc.); that is not the sound quality, it is
    its effect or interpretation. Rather than describe the timbre of
    an instrument in other terms, it is often more clear just to
    describe the timbre by naming the instrument, once we have
    learned the names and sounds of a few instruments.

    Dynamics – loud or soft. A composition that has extremely soft passages


    as well as extremely loud passages is said to have a large or
    wide dynamic range. Dynamics can change suddenly or gradually
    (crescendo, getting louder, or decrescendo, getting softer.)

    Texture – monophonic (one voice or line),


    polyphonic (many voices, usually similar, as in Renaissance or
    Baroque counterpoint),
    homophonic (1. a melody with simple accompaniment; 2. chords
    moving in the same rhythm (homorhythmic))
    heterophony – “mixed” or multiple similar versions of a melody
    performed simultaneously (rare in European music; possibly
    used in Ancient Greece)
    collage – juxtaposition & superimposition of extremely different
    textures or sounds

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