![]() Think about the children's song "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," for example: In polyphonic texture, every line is, in effect, a melody Polyphonic When the melody is performed against another line of equal importance. ![]() Marvin Gaye's performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is decidedly homophonic. This is the most common form of performance of this particular song whenever there is a soloist. Homo = "same," as in "sounding at the same time." Homophonic When the melody is performed with a supporting accompaniment. ![]() Monophonic Texture Unison Multiple performers are singing or playing a single melody together. "The Star-Spangled Banner" is monophonic. This may be a single soloist, or it may be a group of performers all playing or singing the same melody. "The Star-Spangled Banner" begins and ends in the same key Texture Is a function of the number and general relationship of musical lines to one another.Ĭan range from thick (many voices or instrumental lines) to thin (a single voice or a single instrumental line). Tonic A piece that began in one key but ended in another would sound somehow open-ended and incomplete. Chord When we hear three or more notes played at the same moment. Harmony presents notes drawn from a scale simultaneously, sounding together. In "The Star-Spangled Banner," the melody stays the same, but the notes underneath the tune are different. Harmony Is the sound created by multiple notes played or sung simultaneously. With "The Star-Spangled Banner," the tempo varies. Tempo The speed at which a work of music is performed. Downbeat The first note of a measure, which is usually emphasized in relation to the notes on other beats of the measure. Measure A rhythmic unit, indicated by bar lines in notated music, that presents one complete statement of the meter. Triple Meter One accented (strong) beat followed by two unaccented (weak) beats. "The Star-Spangled Banner" has a meter known as dactylic (LONG-short-short). In music, as in poetry, meter is an underlying pattern of beats that maintains itself consistently throughout a work. Meter The most basic framework of this temporal ordering is meter.
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