Elements of music

What are What are buildingsbuildings made of? made of?

When you compose a piece of music you use the elements of music to build it, just like a builder uses bricks, beams or concrete to

build a house.

Music is made up of many different things called elements.

What is What is musicmusic made of? made of?

WhichWhich are are thethe elementselements in in musicmusic??

Activity 1

It is created by playing a series of notes , one after the other.

In general, harmony refers to the combination of notes played together (chords) .

It is the accompaniment of the melody

Musical texture : number and type of layers of sound and how these layers are related.

Rhythm: The placement of the sounds in time in a piece of music

Activity 2

1-Janis Joplin

2- G.F. Handel

3- J.S.Bach

Piano Soft

Mezzoforte Moderately loud

.

It tells the musician to gradually get …?….

It tells to the musician to gradually get louder.

Mezzopiano Moderately Soft

Forte loud

Activity 61

J.S.Bach Bach: St. Matthew Passion.

2 J.S. Bach Suite No.1

3 Haggala. Passion For Percussion

4 Igor Stravinski The Firebird

5 G.F Händel.The Messiah.

6 F.Schubert. Quintet In A Major

Rhythm

Dynamics

Texture

Timbre

Harmony

Melody

Activity 7

Melody

Rhythm

Harmony

Activity 7

Timbre

Texture

Dynamics

Activity 8

Degrees of loudness or softness in music are called……

When the same melody is played by one instrument and then by another, it takes on different expressive effects because of each instruments tone colour.

Is the way the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic materials are combined in a composition

Can be defined as the particular arrangement of note lengths in a piece of music.

Is a series of individual tones heard one after another

Rhythm

Melody

Timbre

Texture

Dynamics

Measure or bar, tempo, beat, meter, syncopation,

Steps and leaps, range, phrase, cadence, contour

Chord, consonance and dissonance, key, modulation

Polyphonic, Monophonic, homophonic

Decrescendo, forte (f) , piano (p)

Attack, Articulation,con sordino, glissando, double stopping, pizzicato, col legno, Timbre

Rhythm

Melody

Texture

Harmony

Dynamics

Activity 10

Content and form

Content Form

Form

The shape or structure of a piece of music.

Repetition

Contrast

Variation

Types

Content (genres)

• Light • Folkloric

Vocal Instrumental

Genres

ClassicalPopular

Religious Profane

Activity 14Marvin Gaye. Ain’t no mountain high

Kirye Eleison. Requiem. W. A. Mozart

ProfanePopular lightVocal

Vocal Classical Religious