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Music (definitions of) In this entry I discuss three topics: the options for defining what music essentially is, features often common to the music of different cultures, and music's possible origins.
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What follows is a fairly long list of musical definitions and descriptions gleaned primarily from multiple Internet searches (utilizing available translation services). I also used a few book sources, mostly for purposes of corroboration.
OMT2 offers thorough coverage of current topics in music theory, and can easily serve as a textbook for fundamentals courses, standard undergraduate theory sequences, and introductions to post-tonal theory.
Musical examples were created using the MakeMusic Finale music notation software. Score examples were imported into the document as Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) files, using the graphicxpackage. All photographs by the author. The navigation links (printed in blue) in the Adobe Acrobat Reader file (the
Melody, harmony, rhythm, and form and the expressive elements of dynamics, tempo, and timbre (tone color). An organized sequence of single notes. The simultaneous sounding of two or more tones. The combinations of long and short, even or uneven sounds that convey a sense of movement in time.
In this article, I advocate for a syntactical definition of harmonic function in rock music such that function is acquired not by a chord’s scale-degree content but by its role in the context of a song’s form.
Broadly speaking, rhythm refers to the duration of musical sounds and rests in time. As you’ll recall in the chapter titled Notation of Notes, Clefs, and Ledger Lines, notes may contain several different components, as seen in Example 1: Example 1. Noteheads with stems, beams and flags labeled.
