3 Secrets To Understanding What Music Is Made Of
...... organic to all forms and styles of music.
So what does all music have in common'
At least 3 things ' sometimes more, but never less:
1.Melody
2.Rhythm
3.Harmony
The melody is the part of a song or composition that you whistle or hum ' in other words, the tune of the song. In one sense, it is the most visible of the 3 elements, because melody is what identifies a song. Without melody, it would be difficult to even conceive of a song or piece.
In musical notation, the melody is almost always written in the treble clef ' also known as the treble staff. It consists of a horizontal line of notes that move up and down on the clef as the tune moves higher or lower.
Rhythm is the beat ' the swing ' the throb of the music. It happens in repeating patterns, depending upon the type of music. It is like a horizontal line of beats which occur at regular or semi-regular intervals. A waltz, for example, basically consists of a heavy beat followed by two lighter beats. So we say that a waltz is in triple meter ' one strong beat followed by two weak beats, then repeated.
A march, on the other hand, generally consists of a heavy beat followed by a light beat, then another heavy beat followed by another light beat. (I'm simplifying, of course ' there are many varieties') So a march is in duple meter ' as you might expect since we have two feet and we march in left-right-left-right patterns.
All rhythms are some combination of triple meter and/or duple meter, and the possibilities are endless ' from boogie to R&B to mambos and sambas and bossa novas and'.on and on.
Harmony, the 3rd aspect of music, is the musical background of a song ' the chords, or intervals 'behind' the melody. Without harmony, a song sounds empty ' like a vocalist singing without an accompanist ' or accapella. Music doesn't HAVE to have harmony to function, but in actual practice it almost always does, even if it is just the interplay of two melodies, as in counterpoint.
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