Art app

• Sound


  A wave and a mechanical disturbance in matter that originates from a source and is sent outwards
• Types of sound


  • Music
  • Language
  • Noise
  • Mixture of all these
• Audible Frequency Range (Pitch)


  20 – 20,000 Hertz (Hz)
• Audible Decibel Range (Volume)


  0 – 180 Decibel (dB)
• Threshold of Pain


  A sound level of 120 dB and above which can cause pain and damage to the ears
• Silence


  The condition or quality of being quiet; is basically the absence of audible sound or noise
• John Cage: '4'33", pronounced "Four minutes and thirty-three seconds"'
• Noise


  Any sound that lacks reference to musical quality and is generally considered unpleasant or unbearable to the human ear
• Music


  The art of organizing and putting together an array of sounds into a meaningful, perceptual experience
• Melody


  An aspect of music which is probably the first and foremost thing that we remember when we listen to a song, or instrumental pieces
• Pitch


  The quality of the highness or lowness of a sound
• Interval


  The distance between two pitches. Small interval are "steps" and big interval as "leaps"
• Melody - Shape


  Determined by the intervals used, whether it is in steps, skips, or huge leaps

  
• Melody - Range


  The distance between the highest pitch to the lowest pitch used within the melody. The range may be wide or narrow
• Melody - Structure


  Melodies have a structure – they are not just randomly jumbled notes, they should make some sort of musical sense

  
• Harmony


  Gives music depth and space. It is that event when two or more pitches, or notes, sound simultaneously
• Consonance


  When two or more notes are at rest or resolved with each other
• Dissonance


  When two or more pitches sound tense or unresolved when heard together
• Chord


  A device in harmony where two or three pitches are sounded together
• Scale


  A set of pitches arranged in a particular sequence and may either run going up (ascending) or going down (descending)
• Triad


  A chord that contains three notes from the major scale
• Texture


  The various layers of melodic lines and sounds happening simultaneously in a composition
• Monophony


  A single unaccompanied melody
• Polyphony


  Two or more tunes/melodies are played or sung together at the same time
• Homophony


  A melody is accompanied and harmonized simultaneously by chords

  
• Dynamics


  The property of music that deals with its loudness or softness (volume)
• Rhythm


  The aspect of time in music. It determines how long or how short a pitch will sound, the employment of time patterns, the length of silences in between notes, and covers the speed of the music
• Beats or counts


  Used to measure musical time
• Accent


  Some beats are strong while some are weak
• Meter


  A repeating pattern of strong and weak beats
• Duple meter


  Type of meter where beats are grouped in twos
• Triple meter


  Type of meter where beats are grouped in threes
• Rubato


  When musicians stretch the rhythm of the music, the meter wavers and it becomes elastic
• Tempo


  Dictates the pace of music, and it sets the mood and gives character to the piece
• BPM (beats per minute)

  60 bpm 1 beat per sec; 120 bpm 2 beats per sec
• Timbre or Tone Color


  The quality of the notes we hear in music, dependent on the instruments, voices, and the method of how these instruments and voices are played/manipulated
• Almost all of creation - whether it may be celestial bodies, plants, animals, and other living things have something in common. Nature dictates that there be balance and symmetry in everything
• Form


  A musical work's shape, structure, and the organized arrangement of its elements – and how these elements are manipulated so that the work makes sense
• Repetition and Contrast


  The duality in how musical elements are utilized

  
• Binary and Ternary forms

  Most commonly used in Western music