1. Music is a form of art that combines sounds to create beauty through melody, harmony, rhythm, and other elements. It allows for self-expression and can have philosophical, recreational, social, and therapeutic value.
2. As an educational subject, music teaching involves singing, listening, and creating music. Key aspects include breathing techniques, posture, resonance, diction, and developing an appreciation of different musical styles and elements.
3. The main elements of music include rhythm, dynamics, pitch, melody, harmony, tone color, texture, and form. Other musical concepts include themes, tonality, modality, counterpoint, and musical notation. Music theory provides the building blocks to understand musical composition and performance.
1. Music is a form of art that combines sounds to create beauty through melody, harmony, rhythm, and other elements. It allows for self-expression and can have philosophical, recreational, social, and therapeutic value.
2. As an educational subject, music teaching involves singing, listening, and creating music. Key aspects include breathing techniques, posture, resonance, diction, and developing an appreciation of different musical styles and elements.
3. The main elements of music include rhythm, dynamics, pitch, melody, harmony, tone color, texture, and form. Other musical concepts include themes, tonality, modality, counterpoint, and musical notation. Music theory provides the building blocks to understand musical composition and performance.
1. Music is a form of art that combines sounds to create beauty through melody, harmony, rhythm, and other elements. It allows for self-expression and can have philosophical, recreational, social, and therapeutic value.
2. As an educational subject, music teaching involves singing, listening, and creating music. Key aspects include breathing techniques, posture, resonance, diction, and developing an appreciation of different musical styles and elements.
3. The main elements of music include rhythm, dynamics, pitch, melody, harmony, tone color, texture, and form. Other musical concepts include themes, tonality, modality, counterpoint, and musical notation. Music theory provides the building blocks to understand musical composition and performance.
1. Music is a form of art that combines sounds to create beauty through melody, harmony, rhythm, and other elements. It allows for self-expression and can have philosophical, recreational, social, and therapeutic value.
2. As an educational subject, music teaching involves singing, listening, and creating music. Key aspects include breathing techniques, posture, resonance, diction, and developing an appreciation of different musical styles and elements.
3. The main elements of music include rhythm, dynamics, pitch, melody, harmony, tone color, texture, and form. Other musical concepts include themes, tonality, modality, counterpoint, and musical notation. Music theory provides the building blocks to understand musical composition and performance.
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MUSIC: Its Philosophy, Values, “the kind of language which has pedagogical skills - select
Objectives and Its Humble the power tocommunicate men appropriate songs for her Beginnings of Music inner thoughts, ideas, and various aims. techniques in attitudes to his fellowman.” teaching desirable level “Music is the soundtrack of your of music understanding life MUSIC AS RECREATION - Living would be irksome if it FIVE FACETS OF MUSIC “Music is the science or art of were one of the TEACHING ordering tones or sounds in continuous works. Esthetic 1. Singing is an activity that is succession, – Merriam-Webster diversion erases our cares and very common in a music Dictionary worries and momentarily classroom. relieves us from our conflicts Proper Breathing - “Music is that form of interhuman with the adverse realities of our diaphragmatic communication in which humdrum existence. breathing proper control humanly organized, the non- Music as a Socializing Force of the breath verbal sound is perceived as Music activities bring men to Good sitting or standing vehiculating primarily affective close together. Music is a force position - flexible (emotional) and/or gestural that can draw people together, singing tones (corporeal)- Philip Tagg, Institute stimulate in them group feeling, Proper position of the of Popular Music, University of civic pride, religious and throat, the jaw, the lips, Liverpool, 2002 nationalistic fervor, and and other muscles - neighborliness. tone production. “Music, art concerned with Music as a Power for World Resonance of the voice combining vocal or instrumental Peace - The nature of musical - up in the head sounds for beauty of form or art is such that it is unrestricted A clear diction - emotional expression, usually by nationalistic barriers. conveys message of the song according to cultural standards - the message that everyone 2.Listening- one phase of the Gordon Epperson regardless of color, language, or work which can provide creed can comprehend and enrichment in his life not only in PHILOSOPHIES AND VALUES appreciate. As a means of his childhood but also in OF MUSIC Expressing beauty and truth, adulthood. music offers no prejudice or MUSIC AS SELFEXPRESSION- intolerance. Types of Music for Listening An expression is a necessity in Music breaks down racial Story Music - tells a story the very structure of music. prejudices and intolerance and Program Music – descriptive; it expression in music is aimed to promotes international may describe places etc release the beauty and the understanding.Music brings Pure or Absolute Music- written meaning of the musical an intercultural understanding for its purely esthetic value composition. “Music is a means of escape- MUSIC AS A THERAPHY - Creative Work - clear concept emotional release, one means of One of the simple procedures not just the old-fashioned and which is music indirect therapy is music therapy. simple-faceted building or “Man expresses his deepest making toy instruments emotions through music-varied As A Music Teacher - must have emotions are expressed desirable qualities eloquently. Enthusiasm and sincerity Music enables man to Willingness to help communicate with nature for it is Self-discipline for exemplary purpose ELEMENTS OF MUSIC. main elements includes rhythm, famous musical compositions Modality: Modes ancient dynamics, pitch, melody, memorable melody or theme. Medieval/Renaissance harmony,tone color, texture, THEME – basis of extended Tonality - "home" key form. musical work Atonality- AVOIDS any sense of Rhythm- TIME in music. Beat CONJUNCT- easy to sing or a "home" pulse of music play Texture refers to the number of ASPECTS OF RHYTHM: DISJUNCT- difficult to sing or individual musical lines. DURATION: how long a sound play). Monophonic (single-note) one (or silence) lasts. PITCH- position of a note sounding at a time TEMPO: the speed of the BEAT. single sound in the complete Homophonic texture -two or Tempo indications - Italian terms range of sound. more notes sounding at Largo = large (slow) frequency of vibration the same time, prominent Adagio = slow sound wave- vibrations of air melody supported by a less Andante = steady ;walkingtempo molecules intricate harmonic Moderato = moderate frequency- how fast the cycle of accompaniment Allegro = fast (happy) the wave Polyphonic - two or more Presto = very fast The higher the frequency, the independent melodies METER BEATS - recurring higher the pitch and vice versa, polyphonic texture canon and accent patterns. the lower the frequency, the fugue Meter- patterns used by lower the pitch. manner of writing is called conductors. Pitch is measured- number of COUNTERPOINT. BASIC TERMS RELATING TO times a sound wave can repeat Imitation is a special type of RHYTHM in one second. Hertz (Hz for polyphonic texture "voice" to Syncopation: an off-the-beat short). "voice". Ritardando:- gradually TIMBRE - specific tone or MUSICAL FORM- combination SLOWING DOWN quality that a certain instrument of the musical elements Accelerando:- gradually or voice has. SPEEDING UP is also known as tone color or BASIC FORMS Rubato: freely and expressively tone quality, Strophic Form: a design in Timbre - do not have VOCAL music DYNAMICS - loudness (or anything to do with the sound's Through-composed- no repeat quietness) pitch, loudness, or length. or return of any large-scale piano [p] – QUIET musical section. forte [f ] = LOUD Harmony- two or more pitches Binary Form - a two-part pianissimo [pp] = (very quiet) are sounded together at the Ternary Form a three-part form mezzo-piano [mp] = (moderately same time. featuring a return of the initial quiet) requires a chord music after a contrasting section. mezzo-forte [mf ] = (moderately relationship between different form is CONTRAST loud) pitch frequencies fortissimo [ff ] = (very loud) two or more notes are played RUDIMENTS OF MUSIC - simultaneously. structure of music the parts of BASIC TERMS RELATING TO VERTICALIZATION of pitch. music theory used to define DYNAMICS melody and harmony. Crescendo: LOUDER Diminuendo : QUIETER Accent: punching DISSONANCE: a harsh- NOTES- represent the pitch and A melody is collection of musical Sounding duration of a sound tones that are grouped together CONSONANCE: a smooth- REST- absence of a sound. as a single entity. sounding DOTTED NOTE- one half of its LINEAR/HORIZONTAL Dissonant chords - musical simple value Pitch - highness or lowness "tension" "released" consonant TIME SIGNATURE- written as a fraction bottom number the kind of note used as a unit of timeTop number the number of units in each measure
THE STAFF- set of five lines and
four spaces. Spaces pitch names. based on the clef.
