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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