Music

• Tone is a sound resulting to the regular or irregular vibration of air against an object. 
• Tone is not yet consider as music though. 
• A tone can be pleasant or unpleasant.
• A tone can be produced through shouting, clapping, squeaking of door or whistling of the wind. 
• A single tone can have duration, intensity or pitch.
• Duration refers to the length of time a tone last
• ·  . Duration of sound is actually affected by the kind of notes used and tempo appliea.
• Pitch refers to how low or how high the tone is
• Intensity refers to loudness or softness of the tone
• Timbre is an element of music that refers to the quality or color of sound.
• Melody is a series of tones with variations in duration and pitches.
• A melody can be arranged in upward or downward direction. 
• static, a melody that does not move up or down
• Tempo is an Italian term for speed or pace. 
• Meter refers to the groupings of beats accordingly by twos, threes or fours.
• Register refers to the range and dimension of a vocal skill
• Register refers to the highness or lowness of total number of notes in a piece.
• ·  Soprano - the highest female voice. Sopranos can be classified as dramatic, lyric, coloratura and mezzo.
• ·  Alto - the lowest female voice
• ·  Tenor -the highest male voice
• ·  Sopranista- a tenor who does the soprano line through a special voice technique and without the use of falsetto.
• ·  Countertenor- a tenor who sang extremely high notes through falsetto.
• Baritone -a voice classification between tenor and bass. Notes are written lower than tenor line but higher than bass line
• ·      Bass- the lowest male voice.
• Dynamics is the relative softness or loudness in music
• Dynamics

  . It is the most expressive of all the elements yet the most difficult to interpret. One 
• . An utmost feeling is needed to interpret the dynamics.

   
• Rhythm an element that pertains to the feeling of beat in music.
• The basic note is the note that receives one beat. 
• Often dynamics is associated with moods. 
• Texture refers to the disposition of a sound whether thick or thin.
• Monophonic - Single melodic sound without accompaniment.
• Homophonic - Single melodic line with accompaniment as an independent line. 
• Polyphonic - two or more notes performed after the other in a form of round song. 
• Harmony is sounding of two or more notes in a pleasant manner.
• Chord - two or more notes sounded together. A chord, due to its nature, might not be always pleasant:
• ·  Consonant - a chordal combination whose ending is precise and complete.
• Dissonant - a chord combination whose ending is imprecise and whose feeling is incomplete
• ·      Triads - a combination of three notes sounded together.
• Form refers to the overall structure of music. It also refers to the differences between parts of the composition.