Learning Task 1
COUNTRY LANGUAGE MODE OF DRESSING RELIGION
Japan
China
Korea

Learning Task 1
COUNTRY LANGUAGE MODE OF DRESSING RELIGION
Japan
Nihongo / Nipongo
日本語
China
Mandarin / Guan Hua
官话/官話
Korea
Hangul
South Korean: hangugeo
한국어;
North Korean: chosŏnmal
조선말,

Chinese Clothing

Japanese

Korean

Koto of Japan

Define the following:
1. Meter
2. Melody
3. Harmony
4. Rhythm
5. Form
6. Texture
7. Timber/Timbre

Meter, Time Signature and Tempo
• meter is a recurring pattern of stresses or accents that provide the pulse
or beat of music. Meter is notated at the beginning of a composition with a
time signature. Time signatures are always notated with two numbers, one
on top of the other, much like a fraction in math.
• Time signature: A musical time signature indicates the number of beats per
measure.
• Tempo is the speed at which a piece of music is played. There are three
primary ways that tempo is communicated to players: beats per minute,
Italian terminology, and modern language. Beats per minute (or BPM)
indicates the number of beats in one minute. Certain Italian words like
largo, andante, allegro, and presto convey tempo change by describing the
speed of the music. Finally, some composers indicate tempo with casual
English words such as “fast,” “slow,” “lazy,” “relaxed,” and “moderate.”

Harmony and Melody
• Harmony is the blending of simultaneous sounds of
different pitch or quality, making chords: harmony in part
singing; harmony between violins and horns. Melody is the
rhythmical combination of successive sounds of various pitch,
making up the tune or air: a tuneful melody to accompany
cheerful words.
• A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of
musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

Rhythm
• Rhythm is the pattern of sound, silence, and emphasis in a
song. In music theory, rhythm refers to the recurrence of notes
and rests (silences) in time. When a series of notes and rests
repeats, it forms a rhythmic pattern. In addition to
indicating when notes are played, musical rhythm also
stipulates how long they are played and with what intensity. This
creates different note durations and different types of accents.
• A song’s rhythmic structure dictates when notes are played, for
how long, and with what degree of emphasis.

Form
• Form refers to the larger shape of the composition. Form in
music is the result of the interaction of the four structural
elements of sound, harmony, melody, and rhythm

Texture
• In music, texture is how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials
are combined in a musical composition, determining the overall
quality of the sound in a piece. The texture is often described in
regard to the density, or thickness, and range, or width, between
lowest and highest pitches, in relative terms as well as more
specifically distinguished according to the number of voices, or parts,
and the relationship between these voices

Timber/Timbre
• the character or quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct
from its pitch and intensity.

How to?

Chordophones

Membranophone

Aerophone

Idiophone