Elements of music

Question 1

What are the elements of music

Answer 1

Melody
Harmony
Rhythm
Form
Dynamics
Timbre
Texture

Question 2

what is melody

Answer 2

“tune”/”theme”
“musical sentence”
5,6 or 7 note scale

Question 3

what is harmony

Answer 3

provides ‘bed’ for melody, pitches simultaneously played-chords, chord
progressions (4-bar, 8-bar, 12-bar, 16-bar, other)

Question 4

what is rhythm

Answer 4

pulse/beat, meter, quarter-8 th
-16 th
-note rhythms (and combinations),
backbeat, syncopation, ostinato rhythms, tempo/tempi, looping/sequencing

Question 5

what is form

Answer 5

structure, intro, bridge (extension), strophic, verse/chorus, ragtime form (march
form), call/response, development, recap, coda (outro); 3 and 4-line stanza; other forms

Question 6

what is dynamics

Answer 6

volume, variance of volume, dynamic contour, intensity,

Question 7

what is timbre

Answer 7

instrumentation, tone colour, quality of sound, sonority,

Question 8

what is texture

Answer 8

activity in the music at any given moment (density - how busy?)
monophonic, homophonic, heterophonic, polyphonic