Joined: Tues, Sept 15, 2016

monophony: single voice (not necessarily one voice), unaccompanied melody

homophony: single voice with accompaniment

song texture (homophony):

• layered
• melody + accompaniment

chordal harmony (all parts move together, familiar choir texture)

polyphony:

• two or more independent voices
• most difficult to hear
• “strict” rules called counterpoint rules for combining melodies
• simple example: rounds (“row, row, row your boat”)

How to do well?

• pick random songs and try to get the texture of the songs

metre:

• duple or triple normally

• duple (one, two, one, two)
• triple (strong beat on beat one; one, two, tree, one, two, three, etc.)

Form (pg. 30)

• two things you can do, repetition doing the same, or something different (contrast)
• form can be small or on a (very) large scale
• note potential quiz questions
• common forms: binary A-B, A-B-A, A-A-B-A

General Dynamic

• forte, piano, pianissimo

Melodic Range:

• wide for notes that are very high and very low
• folk song, nursery rhyme, few notes used

Instruments:

• covered in next class

These are the criteria for the listening quiz