Elements of Music

Elements of Music:

-Dynamics

-Rythm/Meter

-Pitch/Melody/Harmony

-Instrumentation/Timbre

-Texture

-Tempo

-Structure/Form

Dynamics, Change in volume, musical expression, determining partly the moods of the piece. This shows the loudness/softness of a piece of music, and the way to attack certain notes (ie.Accents). These are notated using abbreviations of symbols.

Rythm/Meter, The arrangement of musical time. Music is arranged beats grouped into meassures (bars). Meter is the grouping of strong and weak beats. Rythm is the arrangement of note lengths in a piece of music.

Pitch/Melody/Harmony/Tonality, 

Pitch, Music is produced through VIBRATIONS. The frequency of these vibrations produce sounds of varying lowness or highness.

Melody, This is arrangement of a series of pitches in musical time. This can be conidered the recognizable 'tune' of the piece.

Harmony, This is a group of notes (chords( played together and the relationship between a series of chords.

Tonality, Also known as the key. A piece can be centered around a certain set of pitches (major and minor scales).

Instrumentation/Timbre, What is producing the music. This describes what instruments or voices are heard. this will greatly affect the mood of the piece.

Texture, This describes the layers in music and how they relate to each other. This is also related to the VERTICAL aspect of music.

-Monophonic

-Homophonic

-Polyphonic

Tempo, How fast or slow music is played.

Structure/Form, This explains how music is organized into sections. 

Mozart

Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born in January 27th, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He died in December 5, 1791, at the age of 35. Mozart has 6 other siblings, although no other sibling survived but his sister, Maryanne. Mozart and his sister Maryanne both had amazing musical abilities at an early age but Mozart was more noticeable. Mozart was known as a child prodigy. A prodigy is a person with exceptional talents far beyond what is normal for someone their age, Mozart also learned 15 different languages throughout his lifetime. At three years of age he began to experiment with sounds on the piano, at age five he wrote his first piece of music, by the age of six he had taken violin, by the age of eight, he wrote his first symphony and by the age of twelve he wrote his first opera. In his entire lifetime he wrote 626 pieces of music.

Mozart was born with two special gifts, perfect pitch and photographic memory. When Mozart was 20 he parted ways from his father and when he was 26 he married Constanze Weber and had 6 kids but only 2 of them survived past their childhood.

Famous Compositions:
- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
-Symphonies No. 25,40,41
-The Marriage of Figaro
-The Magic Flute
-Don Giovanni
-Twinkle Twinkle
-Requiem

So far in PVA we are learning about the kolintang and making music out of it. I really like this instrument because it makes a nice sound. Our teacher is Ibu Megan, she is very kind and when we ask for help she explains it to you in a nice way.

The kolintang creates a beautiful sound when you hit the notes with a mallet. There are three different types of mallets, The dark green one used for the Melody and Alto, The light green one used for the Tenor and the brown ones used for the Bass and Contra. The kolintang is usually compared to a xylophone.

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