Transcript WHAT TO LISTEN FOR IN MUSIC

WHAT TO LISTEN FOR IN MUSIC
Aaron Copland
• Famous American Composer (1900-1990)
• Defines American music- folk ideaswestern notations
• Concert & Film music
• Piano player
• Writes about music- critic and book
What To Listen For In Music
• Asks 2 Questions
– Are you hearing all that’s going on?
– Are you being sensitive to it?
SOUNDS
• TIMBRE: The color of a sound
• Like colors in painting
• RANGE OF COLOR: BASS, TENOR, ALTO,
SOPRANO
• NUMBER OF PARTS: MANY, FEW, SOLO
VARIOUS SOUNDS
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STRINGS
WOODWINDS
BRASS
PERCUSSION
– INSTRUMENT SPECIFIC
– QUALITY OF SOUNDS: METALIC, HARSH,
ADJECTIVES TO DESCRIBE OUR
FEELINGS WHEN WE ABSORB SOUND
RHYTHM
• MEASURED METRICAL UNITS
• HAS A HYPNOTIC EFFECT
• JUST RELAX AND LET IT DO WHAT IT
NEEDS TO DO
• AS IMPORTANT AS THE MELODY
R-H-Y-T-H-M
• Discussion questions:
– Where do you find rhythm?
– Do you find it only in music?
• Read a poem and see/hear if you can tap
out the meter.
DOGGIE DISCO
Feel the meter
My doggy likes to disco dance.
He boogies every night.
He dances in his doghouse till the early morning light.
The other dogs come running when they hear my doggy swing.
A few will play their instruments.
The others dance and sing.
They pair off with their partners as their tails begin to wag.
They love to do the bunny hop, the fox trot and the shag.
TEMPO
• The speed of a piece
– Using a clock we can gage the speed
– 60 =‘s 1 beat per min
– Beat per min =‘s BPM
– CLUB MUSIC MATCHES BPM’S TO MAKE
SMOOTH MIXES OF YOUR FAVORITE
SONGS.
SOUND & RHYTHM
REVIEW
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WHAT IS TEMPO?
IS TEMPO THE SAME AS BPM?
DEFINE RHYTHM
A TEMPO OF 260 IS FAST OR SLOW?
WHAT IS TIMBRE?
WHEN ANSWERING THE LETTER “S” IN
SHMRG WHAT ARE WE LISTENING
FOR?
MELODY
• Part that we remember!
– Gets stuck in our heads
– Long & Flowing
– Expressive
Sentences: they are like the story…the rest is
just effects.
USE OF MELODY
• I as a composer have choices…
• Like colors: A-G with accidentals
• 12 tones before it repeats…oct displacement
• Organized sound with rhythm
• R & M work together to create a piece
HARMONY
• Most sophisticated of all elements
• *costumes, sets, sound, makeup,
audience…all the other stuff
• Before harmony- MONOPHONIC
• HOMOPHONIC- using lines of harmony
• HOMORHYTHMIC- lines match up
• 1960’s: I, vi, IV, V ….all fits into structure to
develop melody
HARMONY
• WHAT AP MUSIC IS ABOUT!
• UNDERSTANDING, EXPLAINING,
COMPOSING HARMONY
• SPECIFIC RULES TO FOLLOW
• LITTLE CREATIVITY WITHIN
STRUCTURE
GROWTH
• OTHER IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF
WORK.
• DYNAMIC LEVELS- ..p, F, mp
• FORM- BINARY (2 PARTS) SONATA
ALLEGRO, VERSE/CHORUS….
• ADDITIONAL POINTS OF INTEREST
SHMRG CHART
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SOUND
HARMONY
MELODY
RHYTHM
GROWTH
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