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Chapter 6 –
Music
PowerPoint by Julie Rodakowski
The Art of Being Human, 7/e
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BASIC ELEMENTS OF MUSIC
• Tone
• Scale
• Rhythm
• Melody
• Harmony & the Orchestra
• Silence
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VARIETIES OF MUSICAL EXPERIENCE
• FUGUE — counterpoint
• SYMPHONY — four movements
Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Beethoven’s Third or E-flat Major Symphony (known as Eroica)
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VARIETIES OF MUSICAL EXPERIENCE, ctd.
• Art Songs
• Folk Songs
Schubert’s The Trout
Schubert’s Death and the Maiden
Commemorative song
Work song
Accumulation song
Scoundrel song
Narrative song
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VARIETIES OF MUSICAL EXPERIENCE, ctd.
• Spirituals
• Popular Songs
• Ragtime—syncopation
Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag
• Jazz—improvisation
Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis
• Blues—”half tones” or “blues notes”
W.C. Handy’s St. Louis Blues
Bessie Smith
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VARIETIES OF MUSICAL EXPERIENCE, ctd.
• Rock—a celebration of the joy of life, sexual release, and often a
disregard for social rules
Woodstock, New York
Elvis Presley
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
• Rap—half sung, half spoken music with a steady beat supporting rapid-fire words
Eminem