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Duration: Element Explanation of The Element With Ques

The document provides an explanation of various musical elements that can be analyzed when listening to a song. It discusses elements related to duration, pitch, harmony, tonality, structure, texture, and timbre. Specifically, it outlines questions about beat, meter, tempo, rhythm, dynamics, melody, harmony, tonality, instrumentation, and other compositional devices that could provide insight into the song's musical form and style.

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Duration: Element Explanation of The Element With Ques

The document provides an explanation of various musical elements that can be analyzed when listening to a song. It discusses elements related to duration, pitch, harmony, tonality, structure, texture, and timbre. Specifically, it outlines questions about beat, meter, tempo, rhythm, dynamics, melody, harmony, tonality, instrumentation, and other compositional devices that could provide insight into the song's musical form and style.

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Element Explanation of the element with ques.

 beat and pulse (regular or irregular beat? Remember that compound time
signatures have a beat and a pulse)
 metre (time signature)
 accent (usually the first beat of a bar is the most important. Does this song
duration change this? Are there any notes that are made more important than the
others, i.e. accented?)
 tempo (speed) (does it change? Is it the same all the way through?)
 rhythm (regular, complicated, simple..) (is there a rhythm that you can
recognise from this song?)

 dynamics (loud, soft, gradual increase or decrease…)


 contrast (loud then soft, one section loud, a different section soft…)
expressive devices  instrumental techniques (plucking strings, strumming patterns, using drum rim
instead of skin, etc..)
 articulation (smooth playing, short staccato)

pitch
 melodic patterns (repeated melody)
 melodic shape (smooth and flowing or jumps from low to high notes)
 melody
 melody is usually the singer
 range and register (everything high? Or low? For example, trumpets play
high but clarinets play low)

 consonance and dissonance (consonance is nice sounding harmonies;


dissonance is crunchy, unpleasant sounding chords)
 chord progressions (the sequence of chords; four chord songs are usually
 harmony pop songs…)
 countermelodies (a melody that compliments the main melody and
happens at the same time)
 cadence (this is usually for classical music; it means the two chords at the
end of a section or end of a song) (does the song sound finished, do the
chords make it sound finished?)

 tonality  keys and modes (what key is the song in?) (Major, minor?)
 scale forms (maybe the scale is used in the song?)
 modulation (does it change to any other keys?)

 repetition, variety, contrast, development and unification (does it have


sections that keep repeating, like the chorus?)
 treatment of thematic material (is there a hook, ostinato, main theme that is
structure
important in the song?)
 multi-movement and contemporary structures (verses, choruses, intro, outro,
middle 8, instrumental, bridge)

 monophony, homophony, heterophony, polyphony (this is layers of sound:


mono = single, homophony = chords and melody, polyphony = many sounds
at once)
texture  linear and vertical arrangement (linear is thinking about the melody, vertical is
thinking about the chords)
 voicing (who is singing/playing at the same time?)
 sequencing and track layering

 instrumentation (what instruments can you hear?)


 instrumental and vocal techniques and devices (sometimes trumpets play with
a ‘brassy’ sound, sometimes flutes like to roll their tongue when playing a
note….etc..)
timbre
 manipulation of sound quality (has the music been altered by a computer?)
 register (high, mid, low; different registers on different instruments give a
certain sound quality, for example, the low register on the clarinet is smooth
and velvety.)

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