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Music introduction
This document provides an introduction to music fundamentals including: - Why music is beneficial to the human brain and promotes social bonding, confidence, and stress relief. - Actively making music through playing an instrument is more enjoyable than passive listening. - Music is organized sound that evokes emotions through elements like rhythm, melody, harmony, pitch, and timbre. - It describes musical concepts such as notes, scales, chords, harmony, rhythm, tempo, and how these elements can be combined to express different emotions.
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- 1. An Introduction toMusic www.muziclub.com
- 2. 2 Why live Music •Human Brain has natural affinity towards music. A musical activity improves intellectual brain activity. • Music skills enhance Self Confidence, Social Bonding and Success in society . • Playing music helps in bringing down Stress levels and improves overall health and well being. Music - Essential Life Component • Actively playing music (living music) is infinitely more enjoyable than passively listening to it • Every Human being has the potential to evolve into a Musical genius with proper training and Practice From Loving to Living Music
- 3. 3 Music – OrganizedSound evoking Emotions Organized Sound evoking Emotions Rhythmic patterns Melodic Phrases Harmonic Progressions Pitch / Frequency Timbre / Voice Loudness / Dynamics Wide melodic range, Consistent strong rhythm, Major Chords Narrow melodic range, Slow rhythm, Minor Chords Wide melodic range, Rhythm variations, Mixed Chords
- 4. 4 Musical Note • Durationtells how long the note lasts or the Time Value of the note • This is usually expressed in Beats (measure of time in music) Duration • Auditory property helping sound to be perceived as higher or lower • Depends on Frequency, expressed in Hertz (cycles per second) Pitch • A sound of a specific frequency and pitch is referred to as a Musical Tone. In addition to these Tone has following Attributes Intensity: A measure of loudness • Tones of specific frequency are referred to as Musical Notes and have associated names. E.g. Notes, C, D, E, F in western music Tone and Note Whole note 4 Beats Half Note 2 Beats Quarter Note 1 Beat Eighth Note half Beat Time value of Notes Higher Notes Lower Notes Quarter Note A on Staff = 440 Hz
- 5. 5 Instrument Ranges C4 Middle C C5C3C2C1C0C6 C7 C8 Human Voice Guitar Bass Guitar Violin Concert Piano • Every Instrument has a limited Range of Pitches it can play • Most Vocalists have a Vocal Range of 2-3 Octaves. Some people can go upto 3.5 or even 4 • Sound of same frequency from different Sources sounds very similar even if tone quality (or timbre) is very different. Sound of Frequency in factors of 2 (Octaves) sounds very similar Octave
- 6. 6 Musical Phrases Example ofa common Melody Twin kle Twin kle lit tle star how I won der what you are • Melody is created using different patterns of Notes in a Musical Scale • Musical phrase is a unit in Composition which has complete musical sense • A melody typically consists of several consecutive musical phrases. • Phrases usually culminate into a more or less definite cadence. • Cadence is musical melodic or harmonic configuration that creates a sense of Resolution
- 7. 7 Chord Progressions • I- IV - V – V • I - I - IV – V • I - IV - I – V • I - IV - V - IV 3 Chord Progressions • I - V - I • I - IV - V - I Circle Progressions • I - I - I - I • IV - IV - I – I • V - V - I - I Blues Changes Examples of Chord Progressions • Series of Chords that establish a Tonal Function for each Chord to produce Harmonic Flow • Change of Chord, or "chord change", generally occurs on an accented Beat, • Most Common Chords consist of Triads (3 notes) Formed using alternate notes. E.g. CEG = C Chord, GBD = G Chord • Chords created using Bass notes of various Scale Degrees of the Tonic (Key) are often referred to with equivalent Roman Numerals. E.g. in the Key of C, C Chord = I, F Chord = IV, G Chord = V
- 8. 8 Rhythm • Organization ofmusic into regularly recurring measures of stressed and unstressed "beats“ • Indicated in Western music notation by a time signature and bar-lines. Meter • Speed or Pace of a given piece • Can affect the mood and difficulty of a piece. • Usually expressed in Beats per minute Tempo • Rhythm is regulated succession of strong and weak elements and made up of sounds and silences. • The strong and weak elements (sounds and silences) are put together to form a pattern of sounds which gets repeated • A rhythm has a steady beat, but it may also have different kinds of beats. Rhythm • Basic Unit of time that can be audible • Also called Beat level • Repeating series of identical distinct periods Metric Level Whole note 4 Beats Half note 2 Beats Quarter note 1 Beat Eighth note 1/2 Beat Beat Level Division Level Multiple Levels
- 9. 9 Expressing Emotions throughMusic Emotion Melody Rhythm Harmony (Chord/ Tonality) Happiness, Excitement Wide Range Consistent, Strong, Loud, Fast Major Love, Affection, Tenderness Medium Gentle, Medium Tempo Major Sadness flat Slow Minor Tranquillity flat Smooth, Gentle Major/Minor Triumph, Ecstasy Wide Jumps Energetic, Loud, Fast Power Chord