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    This document provides an overview of fundamental music theory concepts including the basic elements of music like rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, form, and texture. It also defines common musical terminology and symbols used in music notation like time signatures, key signatures, accidentals, repeats signs, articulations, dynamics, and expressive texts. The elements of music section describes concepts like beat, tempo, meter, conjunct and disjunct melody, consonance and dissonance, and monophonic, homophonic, and polyphonic textures. The musical terminology section displays examples of various signs and markings.

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    This document provides an overview of fundamental music theory concepts including the basic elements of music like rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, form, and texture. It also defines common musical terminology and symbols used in music notation like time signatures, key signatures, accidentals, repeats signs, articulations, dynamics, and expressive texts. The elements of music section describes concepts like beat, tempo, meter, conjunct and disjunct melody, consonance and dissonance, and monophonic, homophonic, and polyphonic textures. The musical terminology section displays examples of various signs and markings.

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    This document provides an overview of fundamental music theory concepts including the basic elements of music like rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, form, and texture. It also defines common musical terminology and symbols used in music notation like time signatures, key signatures, accidentals, repeats signs, articulations, dynamics, and expressive texts. The elements of music section describes concepts like beat, tempo, meter, conjunct and disjunct melody, consonance and dissonance, and monophonic, homophonic, and polyphonic textures. The musical terminology section displays examples of various signs and markings.

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    BATANGAS PROVINCE HIGH SCHOOL FOR

    CULTURE AND ARTS – MUSIC  Monophonic: Single melody, unison, no


    accompaniment
    FUNDAMENTALS OF MUSIC THEORY  Homophonic: Single melody with
    chordal accompaniment (two voices).
    I. ELEMENTS OF MUSIC Common of church hymns.
     Polyphonic: Two or more melodies at
    1. Rhythm – the duration of sound the same time.

     Beat: The pulse. A rhythmic unit of time. 7. Dynamics – the volume of the sound i.e. the
     Tempo: The speed of the beat. How fast loudness or softness
    or slow the music is.
     Meter: The organization of strong and II. MUSICAL TERMINOLOGIES &
    weak beats. Indicated by measures & SYMBOLS
    time signatures.

    2. Melody – the tune; an organized sequenced


    of pitches.

     Conjunct: easy to sing, notes are right


    next to one another.
     Disjunct: not easy to sing, there are large
    leaps or skips between notes.

    3. Harmony – the combination of two or more


    *pitches

     Consonance: combination of two or


    more pitches which are harmoniously
    pleasing
     Dissonance: combination of two or more
    pitches which are not harmoniously
    pleasing.

    *Pitch: means how high or low a note is.

    4. Timbre – tone color/tone quality

    e.g. the difference between a guitar and a


    piano playing the same note at the same
    volume and duration.

    5. Form – the structure of music

     Binary: AB scheme (each section may be


    repeated)
     Ternary: ABA scheme (e.g. Twinkle,
    Twinkle Little Star)
     Theme & Variation: Principal theme is
    clearly stated at the beginning and goes
    through a series of variations over the rest
    of the piece. (e.g. Ah, vous dirai-je, TIME SIGNATURES
    Maman by Mozart)
     Popular Song: several different forms:
    a) AABA, where B is often the bridge
    b) Verse-Chrous-Verse-Chorus-Bridge-
    Chorus
     The TOP NUMBER tells you how many
    6. Texture – overall quality of the piece, most counts per measure
    often indicated by the number of voices in  The BOTTOM NUMBER tells you what
    the music and by relationship among these kind of note gets one count
    voices.
    ACCIDENTALS TEMPO MARKINGS

    REPEAT SIGNS

    ARTICULATIONS

    KEY SIGNATURES

    DYNAMICS EXPRESSIVE TEXTS


     Accelerando: gradually faster
     A tempo: in time
     Cantabile: in a singing time
     Crescendo (cresc.): gradually louder
     Diminuendo (dim.): gradually softer
     Dolce: sweetly
     Grazioso: gracefully
     Legato: smoothly
     Marcato: marked
     Rallentando (rall.): gradually slower
     Vivace: excitedly; animated

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