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Understanding Music's Core Elements

Harmony is a vertical element of music that arises from combining pitches to form chords. It can be described as dissonant or consonant depending on whether the combination sounds harsh or smooth. Timbre distinguishes one instrument or voice from another based on quality of sound, similar to color. Texture refers to the number of melodies and their relationship - it can be monophonic, polyphonic, or homophonic depending on the number and interaction of melodic lines.

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Understanding Music's Core Elements

Harmony is a vertical element of music that arises from combining pitches to form chords. It can be described as dissonant or consonant depending on whether the combination sounds harsh or smooth. Timbre distinguishes one instrument or voice from another based on quality of sound, similar to color. Texture refers to the number of melodies and their relationship - it can be monophonic, polyphonic, or homophonic depending on the number and interaction of melodic lines.

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Elements of Art: Auditory 4.

Harmony
Together with literature, music as an art form is If melody is horizontal, harmony is vertical, It arises
classified as auditory art. However, some would argue when pitches are combined to from chords. When several
that it actually under the board category of performance noted are simultaneously played.
art Either way, music, much like the visual arts, has its
Harmony can be described in terms of its “harshness”
own building blocks or elements.
dissonance or a harsh-sounding combination; or
consonance, the smooth-sounding combination.
1.Rhythm 5.Timbre
Often associated to the terms beat, meter, and Timbre is often likened to the color of music. It is a
tempo, rhythm is the element of music that situates it in quality that distinguishes a voice or an instrument from
time. It is the pulse of the music. Beat is basic unit of another.
music while tempo refers to its speed (beats/second),
6.Texture
Beats can be organized into a recognizable recurrent
pattern called the meter. The number of melodies, the type of layers, and their
relatedness in a composition is the texture of music. It
2.Dynamics
may be:
The element of music that refers to the loudness or
a. Monophonic- single melodic line
quietness of music is dynamics. Classical terms are used
b. Polyphonic- two or more melodic lines
to refer to the different levels pertaining to this
c. Homophonic- main melody accompanied by
3.Melody chords
Melody refers to the linear presentation (horizontal)
Akin to artworks whose style, medium, and
of pitch. By horizontal, it means that in musical
technique emphasizes the elements of music
notation ,it is read in succession from left to right. Pitch is
outlined above.
the highness or lowness of musical sound.

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