Module 6: Tone Color, Texture and Theme

Module 6: Tone Color, Texture and Theme

Open Ended

Why does one instrument sound different than another?

Technical term is timbre (TAM-BER)
Unique quality of sound for each instrument, EVEN when playing the same note at the same volume (pitch and amplitude)

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Tone Color

Main Melody
Musical kernel of the melody that is:
1) Announced
2) Repeated
3) Developed or Manipulated

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Music Theme

Reorder

Theme of a piece of music is usually:

• Announced

• Repeated

• Developed or Manipulated

1

2

3

• 1
• 2
• 3

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How Theme and Tone Color can make an ox cart move or tell of the escape from a Troll King

Match

How are THEME and TIMBRE used in this piece?

• Dynamics

• Tempo

• Timbre

• Theme

Start soft,

Crescendo to End

Accelerando: speed up

Lower instruments with deeper sounds 1st

Same melody, Add in new Instruments

• Start soft,

  Crescendo to End

• Accelerando: speed up

• Lower instruments with deeper sounds 1st

• Same melody, Add in new Instruments

Match

How are THEME and TIMBRE used in this piece?

• Dynamics

• Timbre: Instrument Layers

• Timbre: Lowest Pitch, Longest Soundwave= easier to hear from far away

• Motion of the Music

Start Low&Slow

Crescendo to Mid

Gone @ End

Add Strings, percussion=shaking earth

Low instruments=deeper sounds Begin& End

Bass repeats,

Tuba solo=heavy, grounded

• Start Low&Slow

  Crescendo to Mid

  Gone @ End

• Add Strings, percussion=shaking earth

• Low instruments=deeper sounds Begin& End

• Bass repeats,

  Tuba solo=heavy, grounded