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Introduction to Music:
Rock & Roll
Слайд 3Basic Elements
Musical terminology and Vocabulary
The three major elements of music (any
idiom)
Rhythm
Sometimes you can tell a song just by the rhythm
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Melody
A series of notes which express a musical idea
Note -
the sound and symbol for a pitch.
A melody always includes a rhythm
Harmony
two or more different notes sounding at the same time.
Слайд 5Musical Terms
Scale
A series of pitches dividing the octave
European is DO RE
ME FA SOL LA TI
Octave
An entirely consonant harmony
Mathematics shows us that 2x’s the number of vibrations results in an octave higher. These pitches, no matter how high or low, share the same note name.
European Scale divided into 12 equal parts. African scales differed according to region, but none divided it the same as Europeans.
Results: Traditional African scales were not playable on European instruments so Africans generally assimilated European scales with African rhythms.
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Measures
small equal units of a piece (composition) usually containing
2-8 beats.
Progression
Flow of harmony to a resting point
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Chords (harmony was 2 or more notes)
Chords have 3 or
more notes occurring at the same time that have a harmonic relationship.
Improvisation
Instantaneous creation of melody harmony and/or rhythm