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ELEMENTS OF MUSIC (cont’d)

HARMONY:
Definition: Sounding of two or more notes at the same time

Types Texture: “the thinness and thickness of musical
sound”. The way various parts, or strands in
the music are put together.
 Consonance  Light, heavy, thick, dense, smooth, rough
 Dissonance  Monophonic
 Triads  Homophonic
 Pedal, drone, ostinato  Polyphonic
 Harmonic intervals (major, minor, perfect,  Contrapuntal
augmented, diminished  Melody and accompaniment
 modal  Solo, unison
 atonal  Doubling with harmony
 Chords built upon the scale:  In two, three, four-part harmony
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 Root position, First inversion, 2 inversion  Tutti
 Inversions in major and minor keys  Counter melody
 Dominant seventh  descant
 Arpeggiation /Broken chords
 Chord progression

 Cadences:
 Perfect/authentic
 Imperfect, plagal, interrupted/surprise
 Transposition
 Modulation to subdominant, dominant
 Relative major, or minor

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