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Classified in Music

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TIMBRE

The timbre is characterised by unique features that enable you to identify who or what is making a particular sound. This quality of sound that allows you to recognise a type of voice or instrument - even if you close your eyes - is known as timbre. 

VOICE CLASSIFICATION:-

WOMEN/CHILDREN                          MALE VOICES
HIGHEST:SOPRANO                                    TENOR
INTERMEDIATE:MEZZOSOPRANO                BARITONE
LOWEST:CONTRALTO                                 BASS


ACCIDENTALS : 

ARE MUSIC SIGNS THAT MODIFY THE PITCH OF ASCENDING OR DESCENDING NOTES
SHARP:   # (ELEVATES 0'5)           
FLAT  ♭ (DECREASES0'5)              
NATURAL SING  ♮ (CANCEL THE EFFECT OF SHARPS & FLATS)
IFTHEY CAN BE ACCIDENTAL MODIFICATIONS IF THEY ARE TEMPORALY OR THEY CAN BE KEY SIGNATURE ALTERATIONS

MELODY

The succession of tones: Melody. This is the part you remember best after listening to a song.  melody is, together with rhythm, harmony and timbre, one of the four essential elements of music. Melody is the horizontal succession of sounds with different pitches and durations.

Let's look at the basic elements a composer uses to construct a melody. A melodic structure is formed, first,of themes and these themes a reformed of phrases. The normal duration of a musical phrase is about 4 bars, although 8-bar and 2-bar phrases.

MELODY LINE

You must draw a straight line connecting the heads of the notes. We've got 5 types of melody line:
  1. FLAT MELODY
  2. UNDULATING MELODY
  3. ARCH MELODY
  4. ZIGZAG MELODY
  5. NON-MELODIC TYPE

SCALE
 Scale: A sequence of notes going up or down in pitch, from which melodies and harmony can I derived. The scale is called aseending when it goes from a low note to a high note. It is called deseending when it falls from a high note to a low note.
 I: TONIC
 IV: SUBDOMINANT
 V:DOMINANT 
THEY ARE ORDENATED AROUND THE MAIN ONE, CALLED TONIC
INTERVAL

It's the distance in pitch between 2 different notes. The most important intervals are:
  1. ASCENDING
  2. DESCENDING
  3. CONJUNCT
  4. DISJUNCT

TONE & SEMITONE
Tone-> It's the biggest distance between 2 consecutive notes in a diatonic scale.

Semitone->It's the smallest distance between two consecutive notes in a diatonic scale.


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