Music Appreciation Notes #1 Prehistoric Music PDF

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NOTES FROM THE LECTURES 1-5. They are entirely original and are pretty basic stuff from musical notes to scales....

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Sound waves are created when gas feels the pull of dark matter and condenses in one spot and when in motion or when the gas is pushed out it overshoots and then falls back in which creates a pressure wave, this continues creating oscillating pressure waves aka a sound wave. Rhythm is just movement of sound through time in a consistent pattern and when sped up you can’t hear the individual impulses of sound anymore which transforms it form rhythm to pitch Humans can hear pitches from 20 to 20,000 cycles of vibrations per second anything higher is dog whistle range, below is elephant range. The fatter, wider, looser, bigger something is the lower the pitch. Vice versa Higher the Frequency, Higher the pitch. Dynamics control softness and loudness, the larger the amplitude the louder the sound Timbre = Tone Color, refers to a pitch sounding different between different instruments. Tone Quality depends on the stage of the note and how it’s delivered ○ Stages of a pitch overtime ■ Attack- How quickly a sound reaches full volume after it begins ■ Decay how quickly the sound drops after the initial peak ■ Sustain- The steadiness of the sound after it’s attack ■ Release- How quickly the sound fades. The more pitches add up to create a noise (or a chord/note) Half steps are each notes up and down a scale (including sharps/flats)

For men to sing a higher note like C they have to start at the higher end range of their voice and have to sing higher pitch compared to women because higher notes come easier to them (vice versa for men) allowing them to not have to sing such a higher pitch for higher notes. C major scale starts and the C note and goes C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C from C to C increasing in pitch. In this case the Tonic Note or key note is C, you can do mary had a little lamb on the c scale. pattern would be the same as on a A or B scale you just start 1-8 from the key note. so translating the notes to numbers to 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8; 1 to 8 instead of C to C you can translates songs across any scale Solfege is the words under notes on a sheet of music. Bar Lines are the lines on the sheet of music that acknowledge pitch

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(Your Notes but I find them useful)Five Basic Ways of Producing Sound ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

Wind (Aerophone) - (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Trumpet) Solid-Body (Idiophone) - (Woodblock, Cymbal) Drum (Membranophone) - (Timpani) String (Chordophone) - (Harp, Piano, Violin) Electricity (Electrophone) - (Synthesizer)...