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Monday, September 12, 2016
Music 111 Day 1Week 3
stuffs
- Test Review
- interval
• distance between two pitches
- Phrase and Cadence
• equal to sentence and period
• a spot to breath
- cadence
- Beethoven
• Für Elise
• first song everyone wants to learn
• one of first composers to live by being a musician
• In history only those in court could live by doing this
• freelance
• taught rich people how to play
- born poor
• tried to marry the courts daughters
- to raise his rank
- Tchaikovsky
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• Nutcracker: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
- most famous ballot
• lives after Beethoven
• swan lake/ sleeping beauty done by him
- Sir Edward Elgar
• Pomp and Circumstance
• played during
- graduations
- queen of England
- Melody
• tune in music
• Contour
- move up and down
• Range
- span of pitches
- narrow “America”
- medium “Greensleeves”
- Wide “Strauss: Don Juan”
• Interval
- distance between pitches
• Conjunct vs disjunct
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- moves together or apart
• Phrases and Cadence
• Rhythm and meter
- 8th notes 16th notes
- 2 and 4 quarter notes gets the beat
- 16 measures
- 60 beats per minute
• each beat a second
- Americans 4 count
- other countries
• 3 beat count
- syncopation
• off beat note
• weak beats between stronger beats
• African American dance rhythms Jazz
• polyrhythmic
- simultaneous use of conflicting rhythmic patterns
- straight notes
• equal (metrical)
- Metrical Patterns
• simple securing patterns
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• typically 2, 3, or 4 beats
- Duple metter
• up-down up-down
• down is accented
- Compound meter
• three count
- Rhythmic Complexities
• non metric music
- chants
• meter changes
- Harmony
• musical space
• chord
- vertical
- need melody in order to have a song
- dissonance
• unstable discordant
• need consonance (resolution)
- Triad
• 3 note chord
- Tonic
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• central pitch around which a melody and harmonies are built around
- crates tonality
- Scales are all different
• every note is different
- Octave 8 steps up
• going through all of the notes
• 12 half steps
• two half steps make a whole step
• whole whole half whole whole whole half
- microtones
• 1/4 step
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