Musical elements

Question 1

What is Rhythm?

Answer 1

Music’s pattern in time, can exist without melody, as in the drumbeats of so-called primitive music

Question 2

What is Melody?

Answer 2

Wide variety of timbres and dynamics, melody cannot exist without rhythm

Question 3

What is Harmony?

Answer 3

Simultaneous pitches (tones, notes), or chords. Their construction and chord progressions and the principles of connection that govern them

Question 4

What does it mean by the term Timbre?

Answer 4

The character, texture, and colour of a sound, not pitch, loudness, duration, or spatial location. It helps us judge whether what we’re listening to is a piano, flute, or organ

Question 5

Texture

Answer 5

Tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials. Combined in a musical composition, determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece

Question 6

Form

Answer 6

The organizing structure of a piece of music.

Question 7

Tonality

Answer 7

Principle of organizing musical compositions around a central note, the tonic. Tonality refers to the system of relationships between notes, chords, and keys

Question 8

What are the 8 music elements?

Answer 8

Tonality, Dynamics, Form, harmony, Melody, Rhythm, Texture and Timbre