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Formal Properties of Music

Formal Properties of Music. How tones become music.

danielle-mcdonald
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Formal Properties of Music

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  1. Formal Properties of Music • How tones become music 𝄞 𝄢

  2. Formal Properties of Music • Rhythm • Melody • Harmony • Texture • Form • Timbre

  3. Rhythm How music is arranged in time, including duration of notes and silence, meter, and tempo

  4. Meter Duple Triple Time Signature 2 3 4 6 4 4 4 8

  5. Tempo markings Largo = Very slow Adagio = slow Andante = moderately (walking speed) Allegro = fast Presto = very fast

  6. Syncopation 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Syncopation is created when accents occur at unexpected times, on usually unaccented beats, or in between beats. 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

  7. Melody A sequence of musical tones, or pitches Conjunct - stepwise, notes relatively close’ in the scale Disjunct - large leaps between notes

  8. Melodies are usually created by combining pitches from a designated scale Major - brighter, happy, content, heroic Minor - darker, sad, somber, evil Key Signature - set of sharps (#) or flats (b) at the beginning of a piece of music

  9. Harmony Created when more than one pitch is sounded at the same time Chords Chord progressions - musical phrases Cadence - end of a musical sentence

  10. Dynamic markings pp=very soft p = soft mp=medium soft mf=medium loud f = loud ff = very loud

  11. Texture Monophonic Homophonic Most common Polyphonic

  12. Form Binary - 2 sections AB Ternary - 3 sections ABA Rondo - repeating section that alternates with 2 or more contrasting sections ABACA Theme & Variations - AA1A2A3

  13. Timbre What plays or sings the music Instruments Voices Other?

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