1. Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color

I.
ELEMENTS

Part Outline

Pitch: Highness or Lowness of Sound

Dynamics

Tone Color

Listening Outlines, Vocal Music Guides, and the Properties of Sound

2. Performing Media: Voices and Instruments

Voices

Musical Instruments

String Instruments

Woodwind Instruments

Brass Instruments

Percussion Instruments

Keyboard Instruments

Electronic Instruments

3. Rhythm

Beat

Meter

Accent and Syncopation

Tempo

4. Music Notation

Notating Pitch

Notating Rhythm

Notating Silence (Rests)

Notating Meter

The Score

5. Melody

6. Harmony

Consonance and Dissonance

The Triad

Broken Chords (Arpeggios)

7. Key

The Major Scale

The Minor Scale

The Key Signature

The Chromatic Scale

Modulation: Change of Key

Tonic Key

8. Musical Texture

Monophonic Texture

Polyphonic Texture

Homophonic Texture

Changes of Texture

9. Musical Form

Techniques That Create Musical Form

Repetition

Contrast

Variation

Types of Musical Form

Three-Part (Ternary) Form: A B A

Two-Part (Binary) Form: A B

Listening for Form

10. Musical Style

Listening Guides in Part I

The Firebird: Scene 2, by Igor Stravinsky

C-Jam Blues, by Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34, by Benjamin Britten

Prelude in E Minor for Piano, Op. 28, No. 4, by Frédéric Chopin

Farandole from L'Arlésienne Suite No.2, by Georges Bizet

Dance of the Reed Pipes from Nutcracker Suite, by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Contradance No. 7 in E Flat Major from Twelve Contradances for Orchestra, by Luwig van Beethoven

Terms in Part I

soundpitchtone

intervaloctavepitch range; range

dynamicsaccentdecrescendo

diminuendocrescendotone color; timbre

voicestringswoodwind

brasspercussionkeyboard

registerconductorbaton

concertmasterbowpizzicato

double stopvibratomute

tremoloharmonicsplectrum

reedsingle-reed woodwindsdouble-reed woodwinds

mutethemevariations

rhythmbeatmeter

measuredownbeatduple meter

triple meterquadruple meterupbeat

sextuple meterquintuple meterseptuple meter

accentsyncopationtempo

tempo indicationnotationnote

staffledger linessharp sign

flat signnatural signclef

treble clefbass clefgrand staff

middle Cstembeam

dotted notedotted rhythmtie

resttime signaturemelody

stepleapclimax

legatostaccatophrase

sequencecadencetheme

harmonychordprogression

consonancedissonanceresolution

triadtonic chorddominant chord

cadencebroken chord; arpeggiotonic; keynote

keyscaletonality

major scalehalf stepwhole step

minor scalemajor keyminor key

chromatic scalemodulationtonic; home key

monophonicunisonpolyphonic

counterpointimitationhomophonic

formrepetitioncontrast

three-part formtwo-part formstyle