Elements of Music - PART 2

What are the elements of music?

• Daily weather conditions

• The foundations, or parts, of music that we use to analyze or make music

• The parts of history used in music

• The way we relate music to math

Texture is

• Overall opinion of listeners

• Overall quality of sound

• Overall genre used for a song

• Overall understanding of the composer

Texture determines how ___ or ___ a song is.

• thin or thick

• dark or light

MONOPHONIC texture means

• Melody with accompaniment

• Multiple melodies happening at once

• Single melody, no accompaniment

• Two melodies, without accompaniment

Homophonic texture means

• Melody with accompaniment

• Multiple melodies happening at once

• Single melody, no accompaniment

• Two melodies, without accompaniment

POLYPHONIC texture means

• multi-layered; 2 or more melodies

• single melody, no accompaniment

• one melody with accompaniment

Timbre means

• The tone color/quality of a sound

• The volume of a sound

• The way a sound is produced

• The way you raise a pitch

Timbre is how you distinguish between ___ and/or ___.

• fast and/or slow

• voices and/or instruments

How could the timbre of a trumpet be described?

• brassy

• sweet

• light

How could the timbre of the guitar be described?

• Very loud

• Very soft

• Fast

• Mellow