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    This document defines and describes the six elements of art in music: rhythm, tempo, dynamics, melody, harmony, and timbre. It provides definitions and terminology for each element. Rhythm is defined in terms of beat, meter, and tempo. Dynamics are described as the relative loudness and softness of music using terms like crescendo and diminuendo. Melody is a succession of musical notes often organized into phrases. Harmony involves the vertical combination of pitches into chords. Timbre refers to the tone color or quality of sound. Texture involves the number of musical lines and their relationship.

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    This document defines and describes the six elements of art in music: rhythm, tempo, dynamics, melody, harmony, and timbre. It provides definitions and terminology for each element. Rhythm is defined in terms of beat, meter, and tempo. Dynamics are described as the relative loudness and softness of music using terms like crescendo and diminuendo. Melody is a succession of musical notes often organized into phrases. Harmony involves the vertical combination of pitches into chords. Timbre refers to the tone color or quality of sound. Texture involves the number of musical lines and their relationship.

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    Elements Of Art:

    Auditory
    1. Rhythm
    • Often associated to the terms
    beat, meter and tempo.
    • It is the element of time in music and the pulse of
    music.
    Beat – basic unit of music
    Tempo – speed or beats per second
    Meter – recognizable recurrent pattern in beat
    1. Rhythm
    Tempo
    – Largo (slowly and broadly)
    – Andante (Walking pace)
    – Moderato (at moderate speed)
    – Allegro (Fast)
    – Vivace (Lively)
    – Accelerando (gradually speeding up)
    – Rallentado (gradually slowing down)
    – Allargando (getting slower, broadening)
    – Rubato (Literally “robbed time” freely played for expressive
    effect.
    2. Dynamics
    All musical aspects relating to the
    relative loudness (or quietness) of music.
    The terms used to describe dynamic levels are often in
    Italian:
    pianissimo [pp] = (very quiet)
    piano [p] = (quiet)
    mezzo-piano [mp] = (moderately quiet)
    mezzo-forte [mf ] = (moderately loud)
    forte [f ] = (loud)
    fortissimo [ff ] = (very loud)
    2. Dynamics
    Other basic terms relating to
    Dynamics are:
    Crescendo: gradually getting LOUDER
    Diminuendo (decrescendo) : gradually getting
    QUIETER
    Accent: "punching" or "leaning into" a note harder to
    temporarily emphasize it.
    3. Melody
    A succession of musical notes;
    a series of pitches often organized into
    phrases.

    4. Harmony
    Harmony is the VERTICALIZATION of pitch. Often,
    harmony is thought of as the art of combining pitches
    into chords (several notes played simultaneously as a
    "block"). These chords are usually arranged into
    sentence-like patterns called chord progressions.
    4. Harmony
    Harmony is often described in
    terms of its relative HARSHNESS:
    • DISSONANCE: a harsh-sounding harmonic
    combination
    • CONSONANCE: a smooth-sounding harmonic
    combination
    Dissonant chords produce musical "tension" which is
    often "released" by resolving to consonant chords.
    Other basic terms relating to Harmony are:
    Modality: harmony created out of the ancient Medieval/
    Renaissance modes.
    Tonality: harmony that focuses on a "home" key center.
    Atonality: modern harmony that AVOIDS any sense of a
    "home" key center.
    5. Timbre
    Refers to the sound quality or tone color;
    It is the characteristic that allows us to distinguish
    between voice and instrument from one another, and
    the difference between vowel sounds (for example,
    long "a" or "ee").
    Terms we might use to describe timbre:
    bright, dark, brassy, reedy, harsh, noisy, thin,
    buzzy, pure, raspy, shrill, mellow, strained.
    6. Texture
    It refers to the number of individual
    musical lines (melodies) and the
    relationship these lines have to one another.
    Monophonic (single-note) texture:
    Music with only one note sounding at a time (having no
    harmony or accompaniment).
    Homophonic texture:
    Music with two or more notes sounding at a the same time, but
    generally featuring a prominent melody in the upper part,
    supported by a less intricate harmonic accompaniment
    underneath
    Polyphonic texture:
    Music with two or more independent melodies sounding at the
    same time.
    References:
    https://wmich.edu/mus-gened/mus150/Ch1-elements.pdf
    https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/music-and-the-child/chapter/chapter-2/

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