1. WHAT TO LISTEN FOR IN MUSIC

2. Aaron Copland Famous American Composer (1900-1990)
Defines American music- folk ideas- western notations
Concert & Film music
Piano player
Writes about music- critic and book

3. What To Listen For In Music
Asks 2 Questions
Are you hearing all that’s going on?
Are you being sensitive to it?

4. SOUNDS TIMBRE: The color of a sound Like colors in painting
RANGE OF COLOR: BASS, TENOR, ALTO, SOPRANO
NUMBER OF PARTS: MANY, FEW, SOLO

5. VARIOUS SOUNDS STRINGS WOODWINDS BRASS PERCUSSION
INSTRUMENT SPECIFIC
QUALITY OF SOUNDS: METALIC, HARSH, ADJECTIVES TO DESCRIBE OUR FEELINGS WHEN WE ABSORB SOUND

6. RHYTHM MEASURED METRICAL UNITS HAS A HYPNOTIC EFFECT
JUST RELAX AND LET IT DO WHAT IT NEEDS TO DO
AS IMPORTANT AS THE MELODY

7. R-H-Y-T-H-M Discussion questions:
Where do you find rhythm?
Do you find it only in music?
Read a poem and see/hear if you can tap out the meter.

8. DOGGIE DISCO Feel the meter
My doggy likes to disco dance.
He boogies every night.
He dances in his doghouse till the early morning light.
The other dogs come running when they hear my doggy swing.
A few will play their instruments.
The others dance and sing.
They pair off with their partners as their tails begin to wag.
They love to do the bunny hop, the fox trot and the shag.

9. TEMPO The speed of a piece Using a clock we can gage the speed
60 =‘s 1 beat per min
Beat per min =‘s BPM
CLUB MUSIC MATCHES BPM’S TO MAKE SMOOTH MIXES OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS.

10. SOUND & RHYTHM REVIEW WHAT IS TEMPO? IS TEMPO THE SAME AS BPM?
DEFINE RHYTHM
A TEMPO OF 260 IS FAST OR SLOW?
WHAT IS TIMBRE?
WHEN ANSWERING THE LETTER “S” IN SHMRG WHAT ARE WE LISTENING FOR?

11. MELODY Part that we remember! Gets stuck in our heads Long & Flowing
Expressive
Sentences: they are like the story…the rest is just effects.

12. USE OF MELODY I as a composer have choices…
Like colors: A-G with accidentals
12 tones before it repeats…oct displacement
Organized sound with rhythm
R & M work together to create a piece

13. HARMONY Most sophisticated of all elements
*costumes, sets, sound, makeup, audience…all the other stuff
Before harmony- MONOPHONIC
HOMOPHONIC- using lines of harmony
HOMORHYTHMIC- lines match up
1960’s: I, vi, IV, V ….all fits into structure to develop melody

14. HARMONY WHAT AP MUSIC IS ABOUT!
UNDERSTANDING, EXPLAINING, COMPOSING HARMONY
SPECIFIC RULES TO FOLLOW
LITTLE CREATIVITY WITHIN STRUCTURE

15. GROWTH OTHER IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF WORK. DYNAMIC LEVELS- ..p, F, mp
FORM- BINARY (2 PARTS) SONATA ALLEGRO, VERSE/CHORUS….
ADDITIONAL POINTS OF INTEREST

16. SHMRG CHART
SOUND
HARMONY
MELODY
RHYTHM
GROWTH

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