Music Art & Drama

Music - three levels: 

1.    Senses

2.    Expressive

3.    Sheer Music

Vocabulary

Pitch - a sound

Melody - organized group of pitches that express a complete musical idea.

Interval - distance between 2 pitches

Scale - sequential arrangement of small intervals 1 through 8.

Phrase - a group of notes that create a musical thought.  Often equated with question/answer symmetry.

Conjunct motion -smooth, stepwise motion - small intervals

Disjunct motion - jagged, non-stepwise motion - larger intervals

Ryhthm - heartbeat of music.  Pattern of long and short durations.

    pulse - steady beat

    meter - measures the pulse.  Pattern of strong (accented) and weak (unaccented) beats.

        Duple - in two

        Triple - in three

        Compound greater than 4 per measure.

    Tempo - speed of the beat.

Harmony - Vertical organization of music.  Lends to the anticipation of the listener. 

    Chord - group of 3 or more pitches.  Basis of common practice of harmony.

    Tonic =- built on the 1sat degree of the scale.

    Dominent - built on  the 5th degree of the scale.

    Sub-dominent - built on the 4th degree of the scale.

    Cadence - ending harmonic formula.

Texture - Monophonic - single melodic line - no accompanyment.

                Homophonic - melodica line and accompanyment

                Polyphonic - 2 or more independent lines .

                        Imitative -they imitate each other - fugue, round

                        Non-imitative - no imitation.