1. Part 1: Materials of Music
Units 1 & 2: Elements of Music & Musical Instruments and Ensembles
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2. Chapter 1: Melody A coherent succession of single pitches.
Words / Sentence
Highness / Lowness
Frequency / Vibration
Distance between two different pitches
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3. Melody Continued
Range: span of melody from highest to lowest note. It can be narrow or wide.
Shape: determined by direction of melodic line; like a graph.
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4. More Melody
Movement of melody incorporates either small or large interval jumps.
Examples: Conjunct: Disjunct:
Phrase: like a phrase in a sentence; a unit of melody within a larger context (period).
Period: Like a sentence; usually made up of two phrases.
Example of Phrase/Period:
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5. Yet More about Melody
Cadence: resting place or repose; last two notes of melody/ harmony.
Rhyme Scheme: like a poem; symmetrical; stanza of poetry.
Countermelody: two melodic ideas set against each other simultaneously.
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6. Chapter 2: Rhythm
Syncopation: upsetting the normal pattern of accentuation.
Polyrhythm: duple against triple; triple against quadruple.
Additive Meter: combining duple and triple to form asymmetrical meters.
Non-metric: without strong pulse or meter.
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7. Chapter 3: Harmony
Simultaneously v. One-at-a-Time; Vertical v. Horizontal
Scales: Patterns of Intervals
Triad: Stacked thirds
Tonality: major v. minor
Tonic = “Do”
Diatonic v. Chromatic
Dissonance v. Consonance
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8. Chapter 4: Musical Texture
Monophonic: Single voiced
Heterophonic: Two simultaneous voices, both melodic with one being an ornamented version of the other.
Homophonic: Several voices, one voice melody, and the other voices subordinate harmony in unison rhythm.
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9. Texture Continued
Polyphonic: many-voiced texture, usually with two or more melodic lines.
Counterpoint: (literally note against note) the art of combining two or more melodic lines.
Imitation: melody given in one voice and restated in another voice.
Canon and round (simplest form of canon): Row, Row, Row your Boat.
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10. More about Counterpoint
Inversion: Intervals stated upside-down
Retrograde: Intervals in melody stated backwards
Retrograde Inversion: Intervals stated upside down and backwards
Augmentation: melody presented in longer note values
Diminution: melody stated in shorter note values
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