Provides opportunities for both dissonance, when harmonically incompatible notes sound together, and consonance, when harmonically compatible notes form chordsĭissonant harmonies can sound incomplete, leaving a listener yearning for a consonant resolution
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Polyphonic Texture: developed during the Middle Ages, more than one note sounds at a time-covers both a single melody plus accompaniment and multiple independent melodies Traditionally sung without instrumental accompaniment, although modern chant often uses instruments Does not imply a single voice: unison singing is monophonic.Ĭonventionally applied to a style of plainchant that dominated the Western world in the medieval period Monophonic texture: one note sounds at a time without harmony or accompaniment-the simplest musical texture. Much early music can be better understood in terms of level of complexity rather than chords Tonic : The central note (pitch class) of a section or pieceĬhord : two or more notes sounded simultaneously help explain what is happening harmonicallyĬounterpoint : Method of creating separate melodies that are complementary when played together
Texture : the number of pitches or melodies that sound at the same time and also the way they interact Harmony : the combination of notes to produce chords and also a way of understanding chord progression throughout a piece
Chapter Nine Outline: “Harmony and Texture”
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