Chapter 4 Flashcards
Harmony, texture, tonality, and mode
Harmony
Simultaneous pitches
accompaniment of melody
Chords
groupings of simultaneous pitches
Consonance
Sounds pleasing or at rest
Dissonance
Sounds discordant, creates tension
creates a desire to resolve to consonance
Texture
the relationship between a melody and all other lines
How to identify texture
How many melodic lines do you hear?
Are all the lines interesting?
How similar/different are they?
How to identify lines
melody only?
more than one melody?
any chords, figures, bass lines, countermelodies?
Are all the lines equally interesting?
is there a foreground/background?
Is there one main melody?
hard to tell which is the melody?
How different are the lines?
Same or different rhythms?
same or different melodies?
Monophonic texture
only one line; nothing else
Homophonic texture
two or more lines
one main melody with other parts (chords)
Polyphonic texture
two or more lines
all competing to be the most important
imitative
same melodies
non-imitative
different melodies
Tonality
Musical center
feeling of a “home” pitch
Tonal
having sense of tonality (center/”home” pitch)
Atonal
absence of tonality (no center/”home”pitch)
Tonic pitch
the “home” pitch toward which other pitches lead
The first note of a scale
the most stable pitch
Modality
Major vs minor scales
Major scale
do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do
Minor scale
Major: C D E F G A B C
Minor: A B C D E F G A
Major vs. minor scales
MAJOR:
begin with 2 whole steps
end with a half step
tend to sound brighter, happier
MINOR:
begin with a whole step and half step
end with a whole step
tend to sound darker, sadder
Key
scales can begin on any note on the keyboard
Modulation
Changing to a different key, creates new tonal center
