GE ArtApp Auditory Art

• Auditory


  Relating to the sense of hearing
• Arts


  Forms of creative human activity
• Music


  The "language of the soul" is the silent way to communicate with another with a beat, sounds of the instruments, complimented with the beating of one's heart and soul
• Music


  One of the well-known mediums of sharing and communicating one's experiences, emotions complimented with the beautiful blending's of the musical instruments and human voices
• Music


  A form of art that also has cultural activity whose medium is sound
• Elements and principles of music

  • Rudimentary elements
  • Perceptual elements
• Rudimentary elements

  Pertains to the initial stages of how music started, which is basically on a form of communication - grammar, words
• Perceptual elements


  During the 1930's the age of psychoacoustics, music started to make a change were in pitch, timbre and harmony were incorporated
• Pitch


  In music refers to what and how we hear one musical sound produced either by a musical instrument or a human voice. It refers to the highness, lowness of a sound, a note or a tone
• Sound


  A sensation, a soothing blending and vibration of the surrounding with the use of the medium of music
• Noise


  Unpleasant, deafening, undesired characterized by irregular fluctuations of vibrations of sounds both from musical or human voice
• Rhythm


  Refers how sounds, silence and pausing are arranged within the accordance of on a specific time. It is associated with the physical motion. It is the basic element of music, the length and accentuation of sounds
• Beat


  The fundamental component of rhythm. It is the variations and occurrences of pulse in music, the stamping of our feet, clapping of our hands or tapping on the table
• Meter


  Refers to the regular or irregular occurrences of the various accepted or unaccepted beats
• Texture/Timbre


  Refers to the total or overall way on how music sound, the musical piece either of musical instruments or human voices are composed and blended with one another that enable to produce certain density, thickness, range and width between low and high pitches, of human voices or musical instruments, as well as the relationships how the instruments and human voices blend with one another and within
• Types of texture/timbre


  • Monophony
  • Heterophony
  • Polyphony
  • Homophony
• Monophony


  A type of texture that has single melody or tune, with no musical accompaniment nor additional human voice
• Heterophony


  A type of texture composed of two or more instruments or human voices playing or singing the same melody, but each instruments and singers vary in rhythm and speed adding special characteristics to the instruments and singers
• Polyphony


  The various and multiple independent use and applications of melody lines working and blending together, either sung or played at the same time
• Homophony

  A type of musical texture wherein the melody is provided or supported by chordal accompaniment
• Melody

  The most important element of music, an epic line associated with the mental motion, and sometimes called the memory elements because it is what the listener always remembers. It refers to the succession of tones, sounding after another in logical and meaningful arrangements
• Tempo


  • Largo
  • Adagio
  • Andante
  • Andantino
  • Allegretto
  • Allegro
  • Presto
  • Accelerando
  • Ritardando
• Dynamics


  Refers to the degree of strength, volume of the sound. It refers to the force or control when music is either played from soft to loud
• Expression


  The emotion as seen in the face and in the voice. It is important that the facial expression matches or compliments the expression as perceived in the song