Lesson 2 (Feb 17, 2022)

Lesson 2: About Musical Elements (ppt)

• 8 musical elements to look for in music

  • Rhythm (beat, meter, tempo, syncopation)

  • Dynamics (forte ~ piano, etc.; crescendo ~ decrescendo, etc.)

  • Melody (pitch, theme, conjunct, disjunct)

  • Harmony (chord, progression, consonance, dissonance, key, tonality, atonality)

  • Tone color (register, range, instrumentation)

  • Texture (monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic, imitation, counterpoint)

  • Form (binary, ternary, strophic, through-composed, etc.)

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