elements of music

What are the?

• these include:
• dynamics 
• rhythm/meter
• pitch/melody/harmony
• intrumentation/timbre
• texture
• tempo
• structure/form

Dynamics:

change in volume, musical expression,determining partly mood of piece. this indicates the loudness/ softness of a piece of music, and the way to attack certain notes.

Rhythm/meter

Definition: the arrangement of musical time. music is arranged in beats grouped into measures(bars). meter is the grouping of strong and weak beats. rhythm is the arrangement of note lengths in piece of music.

rhytm is shaped by meter

Pitch/melody/harmony/tonality

pitch-music is produced through vibrations. the frequency of these vibration produce sounds of varying lowness or higness

melody- this is the arrangement of a series of pitches in musical time. this can be considered the recognizable'tune' of piece.

Harmony- this is a group of notes(chords) played together and the realtionship between a series of chords.

this is the verticals aspect of music

tonality- also known as the key, A piece can be centered around a certain set of pictches(major and minor scales), where there is a sense of completion.

Instrumentation/timbre:

what is producing the music this describes what instrumen ts or voice are heard. this will greatly affact the mood of piece

Texture:

this describes the layer in music and how they relate to each other. this is also related to the vertical aspect of music

• thick/thin
• monophonic
• homophonic 
• polyphonic

Tempo:

 

how fast or slow music is played.

Structure/form:

this explains how music is organized into sections. the structure of piece is an overall picture of how the piece progresses(insections,using repetition, pharase structure etc).