This is an introduction to music.This slide show includes what music is ,what the music theory fundamentals are,and what sound is.

1. Introduction to Music

2. In this lesson, you will learn ,
� What music is
� What music theory fundamentals are
� Examples of music theory fundamentals
� Waves

3. What is Music
� Music is vocal or instrumental sounds(or both) combined in such a way as to
produce beauty of form, harmony and expression of emotion.
� Something that is very pleasant or gratifying to hear or discover.

4. Music theory fundamentals
� Sound
� Pitch
� Note
� Timbre
� Tone

5. What is sound
� Mechanical pressure waves that travel through physical medium are called waves.
� Examples for physical mediums include air, water, bricks.
� And cannot travel through the universe or vacuum.
� Sound has the properties called frequency, speed, amplitude, duration, wave
length

6. A sound wave Picture illustrating the rare
fractions and compressions

7. Another picture illustrating sound waves
and the graph of sound waves

8. Compressions and rare fractions illustrated
in a graph.

9. What is a Trough and what is a crest in a
sound wave graph

10. 2.What is pitch
� Specific frequency of sound produced by vibrating object.
� For example guitar or violin strings.
� Musically a pitch is like the harmonic value of a note and it is said to be higher or
lower than other pitches.
� For Example G5 note has a higher pitch than the C5.

11. Piano keyboard

12. 3. What is a note in music
� A name given to a specific pitch (for example C, D, E, F,….. .) with a particular
duration, loudness and quality.
� If two notes have the same pitch even though the rhythmic values varies, then they
are the same note.
� For example if we press and hold the note C for 1 second and if we press and hold
the same note for 2 seconds, we’ve played the same note.

13. 4. What is Timbre
� Timbre is like sound colour or sound quality that comes from different instruments.
� For example,
1. C note played on the piano
2. C note played on the guitar
3. C note played on the violin
4. C note played on the sitar.

14. 5. What is tone