Musical Elements

Musical Elements

1. TEMPO

   • allegro
   • moderato
   • adaigo
   • accelerando
   • rit

2. PITCH

   • high
   • low
   • what's it representing?

3. TEXTURE

   • thick
   • thin
   • chords
   • melody
   • polyphonic
     • NUMEROUS VOICES AND INSTRUMENTS
   • unison
   • octaves

4. TIMBRE

   • what instruments can you hear?
   • why has the composer used them?

5. DYNAMICS

   • loud
     • forte
   • quiet
     • piano
   • crescendo
     • getting louder
   • diminuendo
     • getting quieter
   • accents

6. DURATION AND RHYTHM

   • syncopated
   • dotted
   • continuous quavers,
   • long
   • sustained notes

7. ARTICULATION

   • stacatto
     • short detached notes
   • legato
     • long smooth notes
   • accents
   • slurrs

8. MELODY

   • small range of notes
   • chromatic
   • large range of notes
   • rising
   • falling
   • does it leap around?

9. TONALITY

   • major
     • happy, lively
   • minor
     • sad, blue
   • atonal
     • no key

10. HARMONY

    • dischords
      • notes that clash
    • concords
      • notes that work well
      • sound nice together