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:
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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
Melodic Range:
- wide for notes that are very high and very low
- folk song, nursery rhyme, few notes used
Instruments:
These are the criteria for the listening quiz